334 Index
136, 138; pure heart versus, 224;
rousing of, by licentious arts or
variety, 146; slavery to, 73, 91n.
See also Libertinism; Licentious-
ness; Sexuality
Arcadia (Sidney), 305
Arendt, Hannah, 280
Aristocracy, 79, 90. See also Monar-
chy; Nobility
Army and military men, 42, 49 –50,
50n, 173, 175, 198
Arts, 92, 197, 223
Astell, Mary, 251, 253, 257–58, 271
Augustus. See Octavian, later
Augustus
Austen, Jane, 260
Autobiography (Martineau), 255 –56
Bacon, Francis, 46, 91, 291
Barbarism, 40 – 41, 43, 168, 218
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 81n, 141n,
249, 250, 251, 258, 291– 92
Barnett, Ida B. Wells, 283
Bashfulness, 150, 151, 156, 158,
194, 195
Beard, Mary, 282
Beauty: attention getting through,
207, 219; and bodily health, 66,
68; envy of beautiful women for
learned women, 207; of Eve, 46;
and individuality of character, 97;
intellectual beauty versus physical
beauty, 73, 97, 145, 178 –79, 197,
202–3; loss of, by women, 147n,
178, 179; male beauty, 97; and
maturity of women, 97; men’s
attraction to and admiration for,
145, 171–72; mistaken notions
of, and its impact on women,
113, 144; of nature, 197; posi-
tive aspects of, 157; power of, for
women, 73, 82– 84, 87, 112, 172;
Rousseau on, 112, 117; slavery
to, 70; of women compared with
angels, 122; as women’s goal, 29,
32, 45, 48, 70, 73, 219; of youth,- See also Vanity
Behn, Aphra, 248
Belinda (Edgeworth), 258
Benedict, Ruth, 3, 279
Berry, Mary, 252
Blood, Fanny, 274 –75
Bluestockings, 247–56
Boarding-schools, 189, 190, 192– 96.
See also Education
Bodily wit, 156
Body: exercise for, 68, 76, 90, 113,
140, 202–3; full growth of, 141;
and genius, 64 – 65; and gentle-
man’s character, 64; of Grecian
statues, 202; men’s bodily inconve-
niences, 70; and mistaken notions
of beauty, 66, 68; and neglect of
girls’ and women’s health, 69 –70,
103; physical superiority of men
over women, 30, 32–33, 52, 65,
105 – 6, 113; as sacred temple,
152, 158; strength of women’s
bodies, 54 –55, 64, 90, 158, 202;
tattooing and painting on, 218 –19.
See also Beauty
Boswell, James, 164
Botting, Eileen Hunt, 11–12, 243n5,
245n30, 261–79
Brauer, Josef, 276
Brody, Miriam, 243n1, 243n4
Brother-sister relationship, 92– 93
Brownmiller, Susan, 282
Burdett, Carolyn, 272
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