Title The birth of feminism : woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2009]
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Description	1 online resource (405 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-393) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Her father's daughter -- Household academies in Venice and London -- The biographical tradition -- Models of feminist argument -- Learned wives and mothers in italy -- Collaborative marriages in Britain -- Discourses of equality and rights -- Conclusion.
Summary	"In this 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."--Jacket.
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Subject	Feminism -- Italy -- History.
	Feminism.
	Italy.
	History.
	Feminism -- England -- History.
	England.
	Women and literature -- Italy -- History.
	Women and literature.
	Women and literature -- England -- History.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1400-1680
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Feminism.
	Women's movement.
Other Form:	Print version: Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975- Birth of feminism. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674034549 (DLC) 2009005164 (OCoLC)309835462
ISBN	9780674054530 (electronic book)
	0674054539 (electronic book)
	9780674034549 (alkaline paper)
	0674034546 (alkaline paper)