THE ORIGINS OF THE FEMINIST HISTORIOGRAPHY, HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM ALEXANDER'S HISTORY OF WOMEN.Author:
SIMAL IGLESIAS EULALIA.
Year:
2005.
University:
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [
www.usc.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Summary: The purpose of this dissertation is to contextualize the work of William Alexander, History of women in its historical and international framework, stressing in particular the linkages between work and the Scottish enlightenment. With regard to historical context, in the first chapter discusses the situation of women in the eighteenth century British and the dynamics of redefining its identity by the memory leader and Scottish intelligentsia after the Treaty on European Union. The remaining chapters focus on constextualización of the work in relation to the speeches and ideas employed by the Scottish Enlightenment. The third chapter wings notions of femininity and its relationship to the maintenance of virtue present in the work of William Alexander, which impacted on the nature at once progressive and conservative in terms of reinvidicación the rights and dignity of women. In the fourth chapter, will be discussed methodological issues, while the fifth will focus on the influence of speech sensitivity, exploring, through the comparison between the history of women and the legacy of a father to his daughters of John Gregory, the interplay of history conjectural with the prescriptive literature and paradoxes arising.
