Small Change - Harriet Guest

During The Second Half Of The Eighteenth Century, The Social Role Of Educatedwomen And The Nature Of Domesticity Were The Focus Of Widespread Debate In Britain. The Emergence Of An Identifiably Feminist Voice In That Debate Is The Subject Of Harriet Guests Study, Which Explores How Small Changes In The Meaning Of Patriotism And The Relations Between Public And Private Categories Permitted Educated British Women To Imagine Themselves As Political Subjects. Small Change Considers The Celebration Of Learned Women As Tokens Of National Progress In The Context Of A Commercial Culture That Complicates Notions Of Gender Difference.