Paradise Ablaze: Cavendish's Feminist Utopias and the Deconstruction of Gender Hierarchy Öffentlichkeit
Moonflower, Nandi (2012)
Abstract
Abstract
Paradise Ablaze:
Cavendish's Feminist Utopias and the Deconstruction of Gender
Hierarchy
This study sets out to explore how early modern author Margaret
Cavendish used her writings
to offer a bold feminist statement that reconfigured
seventeenth-century notions of gender. I
base my argument on three primary texts: Bel in Campo
(1662), The Convent of Pleasure
(1668), and The
Description of a New World cal ed the Blazing New World (1666).
I argue that
Cavendish uses "gender blending" to fashion a feminist statement
that deconstructs her era's
gender binary and its associated gendered hierarchy. Through this
deconstruction, she uses her
works as gender transgressive spaces that enable women to enter the
public sphere.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 1: Material Girls: Materiality as Female Empowerment. . . .
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Chapter 2: Effeminate Adam, Virtuous Eve? Rethinking Gender Roles
in the Fall. . . 29
Chapter 3: Public Struggles & Private Spheres: Obtaining Power
in Paradise. . . . . . 42
Chapter 4: Beyond the Bounds of Paradise: Transcending Gender
Hierarchy
From the Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Works Cited: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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