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Elite Female Authors in the Field of Power in Eighteenth‐Century Portugal: Epistolary Writing as Part of a Political Strategy
Author(s) -
Bello Vázquez Raquel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12329
Subject(s) - elite , enlightenment , politics , field (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , power (physics) , gender studies , order (exchange) , intervention (counseling) , sociology , history , political science , psychology , law , epistemology , archaeology , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , pure mathematics , economics , mathematics
This paper explores the role of Enlightenment women through an analysis of their social behaviour. The semi‐public and semi‐private features of an epistolary corpus reveal the boundaries marking the accepted pattern for women's intervention in the cultural field at that time, and behaviours that transgress these boundaries. This research focuses on eighteenth‐century Portugal in the context of other cultural spaces, in order to establish parameters useful for the study of the role of women's in eighteenth‐century cultural fields.