336 Index
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Tully), 116,
294
Citizenship, 175 –76, 193, 209, 241
Civility, 83
Civilization, 38 – 41, 43 – 44
Clarissa (Richardson), 99, 304
Clarke, Norma, 9, 11, 246 – 60
Clarkson, Thomas, 251
Cleanliness, 22, 151, 156 –57, 172,
196, 202–3, 207
Clergy, 42– 43, 122, 191. See also
Religious beliefs
Clothing. See Dress
Coeducation. See Education
Coelebs in Search of a Wife (More),
253
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 287
Colls, John, 9
Common sense, 160, 184, 217
Companions, 284 – 85
Comte, Auguste, 2
Condorcet, Nicolas de, 6, 262, 279n1
Conduct literature, 247
Cooper, Anna Julia, 283
Coquetry: desire of lovers versus, 84;
equality between the sexes versus,
200; friendship versus, 24, 57;
modesty versus, 153; by moth-
ers, 75; in novels, 153; by older
women, 97; Rousseau on, 52, 68,
109, 113, 115, 117–18; socializa-
tion in, 267; as unnecessary, 24,
207; and vanity, 92
Cott, Nancy, 3
Courtiers, 63, 86, 87, 160
Coverture, 243n1, 268
Cowley, Abraham, 96, 294
Cowley, Hannah, 247, 249
Cowper, William, 294
Crime, 139, 162– 63
Crocker, Hannah Mather, 263
Cunning: causes of women’s use
of, 171, 195, 200, 218, 220, 225;
of children, 189, 202; defi nition
of, 45; of dissenters, 225 –26; of
French female ministers, 198; of
married women, 93, 196, 200;
Rousseau on women’s use of, 52–
53, 112–13; for self-preservation,
218, 220; socialization of women
in use of, 45, 106; as unhealthy
state of women, 61, 236; and
warfare between the sexes, 198; as
women’s power, 23, 24, 33, 66, 81,
106, 174, 198, 200, 205 – 6
Czechoslovakia, 277–78Davidoff, Leonore, 284, 288n1
Davies, Emily, 259
Day, Thomas, 294
Declaration of the Rights of Man and
the Citizen, The, 230
Decorum, 109, 125, 152, 185, 196,
225, 246 – 47
De Gouges, Olympe, 6, 262, 279
Dependence of women. See Inferior-
ity of women; Obedience; Oppres-
sion of women
Descartes, René, 265, 279n2
De Stael, Baroness, 130 –31
Development as Freedom (Sen), 7
Diana, 158
Dignity, 71–72, 85, 241– 42, 245n27
Discipline of children, 181– 82, 199,
201–2
Discourse on Method (Descartes),
265
Discourse on the Origin of Inequal-
ity/Second Discourse (Rousseau),
304 –5