The Renaissance Notion Of Woman
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The Renaissance Notion Of Woman
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Author : Ian Maclean
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1980
The Renaissance Notion Of Woman written by Ian Maclean and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
This monograph, dealing with the intellectual notions held during the Renaissance of what "woman" is, surveys the ideas of the nature of woman, sex difference and sex discrimination, and the emergence of a feminist movement in the first half of the 17th century.
The Renaissance Notion In Woman
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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Invention Of The Renaissance Woman
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Author : Pamela Joseph Benson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Invention Of The Renaissance Woman written by Pamela Joseph Benson and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, and thus are capable of being independent of male political and moral authority. Pamela Benson argues that the writers use literary means (genre, characterization, narrator, paradox, plot) to defeat the political challenge posed by female independence and to restrain women within a traditional role. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman is a study of the literary strategies used both to create the notion of the independent woman and to restrain her. Traditionally, the profeminism of most of these texts has not been taken seriously because their playful or extreme styles have been read as a sign that they were nothing but a game. Benson demonstrates that the flamboyant and frequently paradoxical style of these texts is the key to their successful profeminism. She defines the literary and conceptual differences between the Italian and English traditions and argues that two of the greatest literary works of the Renaissance, the Orlando furioso and The Faerie Queene, are major texts in the tradition of defense and praise of women. The Inventions of the Renaissance Women is the first substantial contextual discussion of the majority of the Italian texts and many of the English ones. Benson uses the insights of feminist theory and of cultural studies without subordinating the Renaissance texts to a modern political agenda. Among the authors discussed are Spenser, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Castiglione, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Thomas More, Thomas Elyot, Juan Luis Vives, Richard Hyrde, Jane Anger, and Henry Howard.
Renaissance Woman
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Author : Kate Aughterson
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Renaissance Woman written by Kate Aughterson and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Electronic books categories.
This book contains a collection of critically informed accounts of women and femininity in early modern England. The work is divided thematically into nine sections, each with an accessible introduction and notes.
Women Of The Renaissance
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Author : Margaret L. King
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-04-10
Women Of The Renaissance written by Margaret L. King and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-10 with Social Science categories.
In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.
The Ideas Of Man And Woman In Renaissance France
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Author : Lyndan Warner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Ideas Of Man And Woman In Renaissance France written by Lyndan Warner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.
The Women Of The Renaissance
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Author : René Maulde-La-Clavière
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Women Of The Renaissance written by René Maulde-La-Clavière and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Women S Roles In The Renaissance
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Author : Meg L. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 2005-07-30
Women S Roles In The Renaissance written by Meg L. Brown and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-30 with History categories.
The story of the Renaissance has usually been told through the elite male perspective. Here, the lives of women and girls from a wide range of classes, religions, and countries in Europe take center stage. Women had a significant impact on the economy, social structures, and the culture of the Renaissance, despite the constraints on their exercise of power, lack of opportunities, and enforced dependence. This book examines the attitudes and practices that shaped the varied roles of women then, but also the important ways women shaped the world in which they lived. The focus is on both the ideas that circulated about women and on the difference between representations of them and their everyday life experiences. The narrative draws from a wide variety of sources on every aspect of women's lives: education, the law, work, politics, religion, literature, the arts, and pleasures. Numerous women are profiled, and many period illustrations are included.--From publisher description.
Women And Literature In Britain 1500 1700
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Author : Helen Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-11-13
Women And Literature In Britain 1500 1700 written by Helen Wilcox and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.
The Birth Of Feminism
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Author : Sarah Gwyneth Ross
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-28
The Birth Of Feminism written by Sarah Gwyneth Ross and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-28 with categories.
In this illuminating work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of "woman" in the West. An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism demonstrates that because of their education, these women laid the foundation for the emancipation of womankind.