Title: Feminism and Renaissance studies /
Authors: Hutson, Lorna.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Archilei, Vittoria.; Renaissance.; Feminist criticism.; Sex role History; European literature History and criticism.; Women History
Abstract: This text offers 17 essays as an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract Renaissance Man of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender.
Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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 Khan -- Surprising fame: renaissance gender ideologies and women's lyric / Ann Rosalind Jones -- 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.