Gênero e sexualidade no pensamento iluminista

Abstract

This paper intends to analyze some concepts related to the female gender in the eighteenth century present in the encyclopedia. The study is justified because it is in this context that conceptually prepared for a rational perspective, a division of the sexes and the conceptions of gender and sexuality in the modern world. The research allowed to know new views on the role of women in society and their relationship and their performance in society this time. The methodological procedures used were bibliographical and nature based on the analysis of academic works and intellectual production in order to problematize it the light of the research objectives. Thus we expose the theoretical and methodological foundations used in this academic work, in addition to addressing the results and discussions obtained through the analysis of the discourse of the Enlightenment and social concepts related to the proposed theme. With this study, we hope to contribute through reflections on the understanding of the limitations, capabilities and characteristics of the moral and scientific discourse elaborated on the status of women in the eighteenth century on the look of the Enlightenment philosophers, because it is an important issue to be studied.