Gender In Transition: Discourse And Practice In German-Speaking Europe 1750-1830 By Ulrike Gleixner
by Ulrike Gleixner /
2015 / English / PDF
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The late Enlightenment saw an acute transformation of gender definitions in the German cultural areas of Europe, leading to a "polarization" of the sexes. Where early modern cultural norms had once affirmed a multitude of differences within society, modernity was founded on an ideal of equality which, although embraced as universal, in practice applied only to white male citizens.
