Includes bibliographical references.

Women and the reform of the nation / Jean H. Bloch -- Philosophes and women : sensationalism and sentiment / Elizabeth J. Gardner -- Riddle of Roxane / Sheila Mason -- Women in Marivaux : journalist to dramatist / H.T. Mason -- Women and sexuality in the thought of La Mettrie / John Falvey -- Diderot and women / Robert Niklaus -- Diderot and the education of girls / Eva Jacobs -- Restif de la Bretonne and women's estate / Dennis Fletcher -- Women in Mercier's Tableau de Paris / John Lough -- Bibliotheque universelle des dames (1785-97) / Vivienne Mylne -- Duclos's Histoire de Madame de Luz : woman and history / P.M. Hall -- Paradox of Sophie and Julie : contemporary response to Rousseau's ideal wife and ideal mother / P.D. Jimack -- D'Antraigues's feminism : where fact and fantasy meet / Colin Duckworth -- Cleopatra's nose and Enlightenment historiography / J.H. Brumfitt -- Voltaire and Ninon de Lenclos / Mark Waddicor -- Madame de Tencin : an eighteenth-century woman novelist / Shirley Jones -- Marie Huber and the campaign against eternal hell torments / E.R. Briggs -- Madame de Montesquieu, with some considerations on Therese de Secondat / Robert Shackleton -- Angelique Diderot and the White Terror / Jean Varlott.