Bad for Women
David Todd: Revolutionary Féminisme, 4 July 2024
Louise Dupin’s ‘Work on Women’: Selections
edited and translated by Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin.
Oxford, 296 pp., £19.99, October 2023,978 0 19 009010 4 Show More
edited and translated by Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin.
Oxford, 296 pp., £19.99, October 2023,
The Letters of the Duchesse d’Elbeuf: Hostile Witness to the French Revolution
edited by Colin Jones, Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley and Simon Macdonald.
Liverpool, 411 pp., £60, October 2023,978 1 80207 871 8 Show More
edited by Colin Jones, Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley and Simon Macdonald.
Liverpool, 411 pp., £60, October 2023,
“... Choderlos de Laclos
’s Liaisons dangereuses is remembered for its salacious intrigues, but it’s also about the condition of women. Addressing the Vicomte de Valmont, her partner in games of intimate deception, the Marquise de Merteuil declares that all aspects of social life are more fraught with danger for women: ‘As for you men, your defeats are only a success the less ... ”
