The birth of feminism : woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.
2009
HQ1641 .R68 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
The birth of feminism : woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.
Author
Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975-
ISBN
9780674034549 (alk. paper)
0674034546 (alk. paper)
0674034546 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HQ1641 .R68 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.42/09/42
Summary
"In this work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of "woman" in the West."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Her father's daughter
Household academies in Venice and London
The biographical tradition
Models of feminist argument
Learned wives and mothers in italy
Collaborative marriages in Britain
Discourses of equality and rights
Conclusion.
Her father's daughter
Household academies in Venice and London
The biographical tradition
Models of feminist argument
Learned wives and mothers in italy
Collaborative marriages in Britain
Discourses of equality and rights
Conclusion.