The situation of a woman in the ancien régime 3304-1DP2W-KHK-01

elective courses

The aim of the course is to present the woman’s situation in France during the ancien régime period, i.e. in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The course will show different aspects of women's lives in that period of time: • Medical theories regarding the female body (woman's reproductive system, diseases, births) • Witch processes (causes and effects) • Woman’s legal situation (time of her virginity, abductions as matrimonial strategies, mar-riage, adultery, widowhood, old-age, monastery) • Education (theory and practice) • Women’s literary works (poetry, treatises, novels, plays, salons) • Daily life and motherhood • Prominent women’s profiles, e.g. Marie de Gournay, Madeleine de Scudéry, Olympe de Gouges • Scientific and political activity • Woman’s situation during the French Revolution The concept of the dispute about woman will be discussed: what it is and what the main dis-pute’s subjects are. During the course, fragments of contemporary studies related to the wom-en’s history will be analysed, as well as fragments or entire works of authors involved into the dispute e.g. Marie de Gournay, François Poulain de la Barre, Marquis de Condorcet or Olympe de Gouges.

After the whole course, students should:

1. know how to make a list of a basic bibliographic entries in the field of discussed topics

2. present and comment a text source

3. present and comment a study from a selected discipline

4. speak in a panel discussion on a specific topic related to the French culture

5. prepare and write a text summarizing the notions raised during the classes

Graduates know and understand:
K_W10 selected facts, processes and phenomena in the culture and history of the countries of the
French-speaking cultural area
The graduate is able to:
K_U03 recognise, analyse and interpret different types of cultural products (language, literature), using adequate terminology and appropriate
methods and research tools
K_U04 recognise, analyse and interpret different kinds of cultural production (language, literature), using adequate terminology and appropriate research methods and tools
K_U09 acquire knowledge and develop skills independently, using a variety of sources
Graduates are ready to:
K_K02 openness towards individual and cultural differences
K_K04 care for the cultural heritage, especially in relation to French and Francophone culture

The final grade is a sum up of following factors:

1. final writing test checking the knowledge acquired during the classes

2. oral presentation during the classes consisting of:

a. a summary of a contemporary study’s fragment discussed

b. an analysis of a source text’s fragment

The form and criteria for passing the course may change depending on the current epidemic threat. Equivalent credit conditions will be established in accordance with the guidelines in force at the University of Warsaw, in consultation with the participants of the classes.

Wybrana bibliografia
Teksty źródłowe:
1) Acidalius Valens, Paradoxe sur les femmes ou l’on tâche de prouver qu’elles ne sont pas de l’espèce humaine, Cracovie 1761 (tłum. z łac. Meusnier de Querlon z wyd. z 1595: Disputatio perjucunda qua anonymus probare nititur mulieres homines non esse)
2) Agrippa Henri-Corneille, Traité de l’excellence de la femme, tłum z łac. Lois Vivant, Paris 1578
3) Anne Marie de Schurman. Femme savante (1607–1678). Correspondance, oprac. C. Venesoen, Paris 2004 (Textes de la Renaissance, Série „Éducation des femmes”, red. C.H. Winn, 80)
4) Du Puy La Chapelle Nicolas, Instruction d’un pere à sa fille, tirée de l’écriture sainte. Sur la religion, les moeurs & la manière de se conduire dans le monde, [b.m.w.] 1708
5) L’Escale Adam Scaliger [le chevalier de], Le Champion des femmes qui soutient qu’elles sont plus nobles, plus parfaites, & en tout plus vertueuses que les hommes. Contre un certain Misogynès Anonyme auteur & inventeur de l’imperfection & malice des Femmes, Paris 1618
6) Fénelon de Salignac de la Motte François, De l’éducation des filles. Dialogues sur l’Eloquence, Paris [b.r.w.]
7) Gournay (Marie Le Jars de), Œuvres complètes, wyd. J.-C. Arnould, É. Berriot, C. Blum, A.L. Franchetti, M.-C. Thomine, V. Worth-Stylianou, pod. red. J.-C. Arnould, t. 1–2, Paris 2002 (Textes de la Renaissance, 51)
8) La Bruyère Jean de, Les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle, Paris 1965
9) Poulain de la Barre François, De l’égalité des deux sexes (1673), Paris 1984 (Corpus des œuvres de philosophie en langue française)
10) Scudéry Madeleine de, Clélie histoire romaine, cz. 1 (1654), wyd. Ch. Morlet-Chantalat, Paris 2001 (Sources classiques, 30)
11) Suchon Gabrielle, Petit traité de la faiblesse, de la légèreté et de l’inconstance qu’on attribue aux femmes mal à propos, wyd. S. Auffret, Paris 2002

Opracowania :
1) Bechtel Guy, Cztery kobiety Boga: ladacznica, czarownica, święta, głupia gęś, Warszawa 2001
2) Blackledge Catherine, Wagina. Kobieca seksualność w historii kultury, tłum. K. Bartuzi, Warszawa 2003
3) Bogucka Maria, Gorsza płeć. Kobieta w dziejach Europy od antyku po wiek XXI, Warszawa 2005
4) Craveri Benedetta, L’âge de la conversation, Paris 2002
5) Duchêne Roger, Être femme au temps de Louis XIV, Paris 2004 (Pour l’Histoire)
6) La femme dans la société médiévale et moderne. Actes du colloque de Nieborów 6–8 juin 2002, red. P. Mane, F. Piponnier, M. Wilska, M. Piber-Zbieranowska, Warszawa 2005
7) Godineau Dominique, Les femmes dans la société française, 16e–18e siècle, Paris 2003
8) Histoire des femmes en Occident, red. G. Duby, M. Perrot, t. 1,2,3, Paris 1991
9) Malinowska Monika, Sytuacja kobiety w siedemnastowiecznej Francji i Polsce, Warszawa 2008
10) Partyka Joanna, „Żona wyćwiczona”. Kobieta pisząca w kulturze XVI i XVII wieku, Warszawa 2004
11) Revisiter «la querelle des femmes». Discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des sexes de 1750 aux lendemains de la Révolution, Éliane Viennot/Nicole Pellegrin (red.),Saint-Étienne 2012.
12) Revisiter «la querelle des femmes». Discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des sexes de 1400 à 1600, Armel Dubois-Nayt/Nicole Dufournaud/Anne Paupert (red.), Saint-Étienne 2013.
13) Revisiter «la querelle des femmes». Discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des sexes de 1600 à 1750, Danielle Haase-Dubosc/Marie-Élisabeth Henneau (red.), Saint-Étienne 2013.

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