The upcoming conference will address the relationship between a feminist Enlightenment and the forms political action took within a European context. It will explore whether and how women’s political identities were formulated and even implemented by men, or by women themselves. Furthermore, it will also concentrate on the circulation of these ideas in the global eighteenth century and how Enlightenment discourse on gender and politics contributed to or opposed the colonial project and theories of race. We welcome papers that investigate how class, age, race, and religion intersected with the question of gender and politics. We invite scholars from the fields of eighteenth-century literature, history, legal studies, women’s studies, political theory, and philosophy.

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