| Description |
ix, 480 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford readings in feminism
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Oxford readings in feminism.
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| Contents |
Part 1. Humanism after feminism. Did women have a Renaissance? / Joan Kelly ; Women humanists : education for what? / Lisa Jardine ; The housewife and the humanists / Lorna Hutson ; The tenth muse : gender, rationality, and the marketing of knowledge / Stephanie Jed -- pt. 2. Historicizing femininity. The notion of woman in medicine, anatomy, and physiology / Ian Maclean ; Women on top / Natalie Zemon Davis ; The "cruel mother" : maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber ; Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany / Lyndal Roper -- pt. 3. Gender and Genre. Diana described : scattered woman and scattered rhyme / Nancy J. Vickers ; Literary fat ladies and the generation of the text / Patricia Parker ; Margaret Cavendish and the romance of contract / Victoria Kahn ; Surprising fame : renaissance gender ideologies and women's lyric / Ann Rosalind Jones -- pt. 4. Women's agency. Women on top in the pamphlet literature of the English Revolution / Sharon Achinstein ; La donnesca mano / Fredrika Jacobs ; Guilds, male bonding, and women's work in early modern Germany / Merry Wiesner ; Language, power, and the law : women's slander litigation in early modern London / Laura Gowing ; Finding a voice : Vittoria Archilei and the Florentine "new music" / Tim Carter. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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Sex role -- History -- 16th century.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist criticism. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Hutson, Lorna.
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| Cover Title |
Feminism & renaissance studies |
| ISBN |
0198782438 paperback |
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0198782446 |
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