Feminism and Renaissance studies
By: edited by Lorna Hutson.
Contributors: Hutson, Lorna.
Series: Oxford readings in feminism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.; Sex role -- History -- 16th century.; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism.; Feminist criticism.
Other titles: Feminism & renaissance studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Did women have a Renaissance? / Joan Kelly; title: Women humanists : education for what? / Lisa Jardine; title: The housewife and the humanists / Lorna Hutson; title: The tenth muse : gender, rationality, and the marketing of knowledge / Stephanie Jed; title: The notion of woman in medicine, anatomy, and physiology / Ian Maclean; title: Women on top / Natalie Zemon Davis; title: The "cruel mother" : maternity, widowhood, and dowry in Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber; title: Witchcraft and fantasy in early modern Germany / Lyndal Roper; title: Diana described : scattered woman and scattered rhyme / Nancy J. Vickers; title: Literary fat ladies and the generation of the text / Patricia Parker; title: Margaret Cavendish and the romance of contract / Victoria Kahn; title: Surprising fame : renaissance gender ideologies and women's lyric / Ann Rosalind Jones; title: Women on top in the pamphlet literature of the      English Revolution / Sharon Achinstein; title: La        donnesca mano / Fredrika Jacobs; title: Guilds, male     bonding, and women's work in early modern Germany   / Merry Wiesner; title: Language, power, and the law :  women's slander litigation in early modern London /  Laura Gowing; title: Finding a voice : Vittoria Archilei and the Florentine "new music" / Tim Carter.