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Introduction Vivien Jones; Part I. Constructing Women in the EighteenthCentury: Section I. Eighteenth-Century Femininities: 1. Writings on educationand conduct: arguments for female improvement Kathryn Sutherland; 2.Eighteenth-century femininity: 'a supposed sexual character' Harriet Guest;3. Women and race: 'a difference of complexion' Felicity A. Nussbaum; SectionII. Women, Family, and the Law: 4. Women's status as legal and civicsubjects: 'a worse condition than slavery itself?' Gillian Skinner; 5. Womenin families: the great disturbance Ruth Perry; Section III. Women and Print:6. Women and the business of print Paula McDowell; 7. Women readers: a casestudy Jan Fergus; Part II. Writing Women in the Eighteenth Century: 8.(Re)discovering women's texts Isobel Grundy; 9. Women and the rise of thenovel: sexual prescripts Ros Ballaster; 10. Women poets of the eighteenthcentury Margaret Anne Doody; 11. Women and the theatre Angela J. Smallwood;12. Women and popular culture: gender, cultural dynamics, and popular printsDianne Dugaw; 13. Varieties of women's writing Clare Brant; Guide to furtherreading.