Penser l’égalité des sexes au XVIIe siècle / Constructing the equality of the sexes in C17 France

Papers examining the issue from a philosophical, theological, medical, literary and historical viewpoint are welcome and can be in French or in English.

Please send 300-word abstracts in English or French by email directly to derval.conroy ucd.ie by 14 July 2017.
Publication of selected papers as a collective peer-reviewed volume is envisaged.


Penser l’égalité des sexes au XVIIe siècle / Constructing the equality of the sexes in C17 France

Keynote speakers :
Siep Stuurman
Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin

The aim of this conference is to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, envisaged, imagined, dramatized, realized or dismissed in seventeenth-century France.