TY - BOOK N2 - "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. AB - "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. T1 - The birth of feminism :woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / DA - 2009. CY - Cambridge, Mass. : AU - Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, CN - HQ1641 CN - HQ1641 PB - Harvard University Press, PP - Cambridge, Mass. : PY - 2009. ID - 340933 KW - Feminism KW - Feminism KW - Women and literature KW - Women and literature SN - 9780674034549 (alk. paper) SN - 0674034546 (alk. paper) TI - The birth of feminism :woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / ER -