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Early Modern Transitions: From Montaigne to Choisy
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 145-157
- 10.1353/esp.2013.0000
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Focusing on texts by Montaigne and the abbé de Choisy, this essay explores the kinds and degrees of sexual and gendered transitions early modern individuals might have made or sought to make. These are situated within contemporary socio-cultural transitions, notably the increased standing of women.