Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex
By: Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ; translated and edited with an introduction by Albert Rabil, Jr.
Contributors: Rabil, Albert.
Series: The other voice in early modern Europe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Women -- Early works to 1800.; Feminism -- Early works to 1800.
Description: "Originally published in 1529, the Declamation of the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded." "Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raises the question of why women were excluded and provides answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors. His declamation, disseminated through the printing press, illustrates the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.