Опыт в защиту женского пола
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- APAДжудит Дрейк. (n.d.). Опыт в защиту женского пола. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ru/works/judith-drake/an-essay-in-defence-of-the-female-sex
- MLAДжудит Дрейк. "Опыт в защиту женского пола." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ru/works/judith-drake/an-essay-in-defence-of-the-female-sex.
- ChicagoДжудит Дрейк. Опыт в защиту женского пола. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ru/works/judith-drake/an-essay-in-defence-of-the-female-sex.
О чём это
An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696), by Judith Drake.
Контекст и история
It was published anonymously — the title page says only 'Written by a Lady' — and for over two hundred years was taken to be by Mary Astell, who had published her Serious Proposal to the Ladies that same year. In 1912 Alfred Upham compared it with the rest of Astell's work and found incompatibilities of substance; today it is attributed to **Judith Drake**, on the evidence of the poem her husband dedicated to the author in the second edition and of the bookseller Curll's catalogue, which already gave it to 'Mrs. Drake'. **In SigPhi's catalogue it stood under Astell until 2 Aug 2026**, because the source the text comes from files it that way. The book stands on its own: it argues that the inequality between men and women comes not from nature but from education and custom, and it argues it through satirical portraits — the pedant, the squire, the beau, the virtuoso — that ridicule men who believe themselves superior.
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Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) AN ESSAY In Defence of the _FEMALE SEX_. In which are inserted the CHARACTERS OF _A Pedant_, _A Squire_, _A Beau_, _A Vertuoso_, _A Poetaster_, _A City-Critick_, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady. _Since each is fond of his own ugly Face; Why shou’d you when we hold it break the Glass?_ Prol. to Sir _F. Flutter_. _LONDON_, Printed for _A. Roper_ and _E. Wilkinson_ at the _Black Boy_, and _R. Clavel_ at the _Peacock_, in _Fleetstreet_, 1696. _To Her Royal Highness the Princess_ Anne _of_ Denmark. _MADAM_, If in adventuring to lay this little Piece at your Highnesses Feet, and humbly beg your Royal Protection of it, I have presum’d too far, be pleas’d to impute it to your own, most gracious Goodness, the knowledge of which encourag’d me. Our Sex are by Nature tender of their own Off-spring, and may be allow’d to have more fondness for those of the Brain, then any other; because they are so few, and meet with so many Enemies at their first appearance in the World. I hope therefore to find pardon, if like an indulgent Parent, I have endeavour’d to advance my first Born, by entering it very early into your Highnesses Service. I have not presum’d to approach your Highness out of any Confidence in the merits of this Essay, but of the Cause which it pleads, wherein the Honour of the whole Sex