Representations of Femininity in Seventeenth Century Conduct Manuals for Gentlemen

Stefania Biscetti

doi:10.2478/v10320-012-0036-3

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Representations of Femininity in Seventeenth Century Conduct Manuals for Gentlemen

Gender Studies

Volume 11 (2012): Issue 1 (November 2012)

By: Stefania Biscetti

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

This paper investigates conceptual representations of women in 17^th century conduct manuals for gentlemen published in England before and after the Civil War. The aim is to see whether the socio-cultural transformations produced by the Revolution are reflected in the metaphorical expressions referring to the female sex in a highly conservative textual genre

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