The Equality of the Sexes
Subtitle: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century
By: Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 15 November 2013
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199673513
Subjects: Sex role; Feminist theory
Description: "Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society was debated in Western culture from the civilization of ancient Greece to the establishment of early Christian churches. There had also been some proponents of women's superiority (in comparison with men) prior to the early modern period. In contrast with both of these claims, the seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued for the equality of men and women." -- Publisher website.