Feminist Writers Of The Seventeenth Century

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674955202
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women on the Margins written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.

Author : Samuel Alfred Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Writers of the Seventeenth Century written by Samuel Alfred Richards and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191654493
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Equality of the Sexes written by Desmond M. Clarke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 were 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. Among the most articulate and original defenders of that view were Marie le Jars de Gournay, Anna Maria van Schurman, and François Poulain de la Barre. Gournay published The Equality of Men and Women in Paris in 1622, while one of her Dutch correspondents, Van Schurman, published in Latin her Dissertation in support of women's education in 1641. Poulain wrote a radical Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes in 1673, which he also published in Paris. These three feminist tracts transformed the language and conceptual framework in which questions about women's equality or otherwise were subsequently discussed. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, anonymous plagiarized editions and pirated translations of Poulain's work appeared in English, as 'vindications' of the rights of women. This edition includes new translations, from French and Latin, of these three key texts, and excerpts from the authors' related writings, together with an extensive introduction to the religious and philosophical context within which they argued against the traditional view of women's natural inferiority to men.

Author : S. A. RICHARDS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033613702
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book FEMINIST WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY written by S. A. RICHARDS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. A. Richards
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656031221
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Feminist Writers of the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint) written by S. A. Richards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Feminist Writers of the Seventeenth Century N o comprehensive View of the history of this move ment is therefore possible if due consideration is not given to the feminist writers of the seventeenth cen tury in France. Many of these pioneers of new ideas appealed to a very restricted circle of readers in their own lifetime, and are quite unknown to - day. Their literary merit was not great; their works have long been out of print, and their names are forgotten. They are brought into View once more in these pages because their ideas, often quaintly enough expressed, are interesting, not only in themselves, but also on account of their bearing upon the origin of a move ment which is occupying the attention of all thinking people at the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Shannon Miller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812240863
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engendering the Fall written by Shannon Miller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engendering the Fall argues that early seventeenth-century women's writing influenced Paradise Lost, while later seventeenth-century texts reworked central aspects of Milton's epic in order to reconfigure the politically resonant gendered hierarchy laid out by the story of the Fall.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820311111
Total Pages : 545 pages
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Download or read book Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catie Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187196X
Total Pages : 261 pages
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Download or read book Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community written by Catie Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of women’s involvement in the shaping of this religious movement. The book reveals that, far from being of marginal importance, women were able to exploit the terms in which Quaker identity was constructed to create roles for themselves, in public and in print, that emphasised their engagement with Friends’ religious and political agenda. Gill’s evidence suggests that women were able to mobilise contemporary notions of femininity when pursuing active roles as prophets, martyrs, mothers, and political activists. The book’s focus on collective, Quaker identities, which arises from its analysis of multiple-authored texts, is key to its claims that gender issues have to be considered when analysing the sect’s emergent system of values, and Gill assesses the representation of women in male-authored texts in addition to female writers’ attitudes to agency. A bibliography that, for the first time, lists men and women’s involvement as contributors as well as authors to Quaker pamphlets provides a valuable resource for scholars of seventeenth-century radicalism.

Author : Ramona Wray
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century written by Ramona Wray and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramona Way introduces readers to a range of writing by women across the breadth of the 17th century. In doing so, she traces the trajectory of women's writing from the first stirrings of female authorship in the late 16th century to the emergence of the professional woman writer at the Restoration

Author : Dr Marianne Legault
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409471039
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature written by Dr Marianne Legault and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same sex friendship. The author explores the effect of this homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers in seventeenth-century France. The book consists of three parts: the first surveys the history of male thinkers' denial of female friendship, concluding with a synopsis of the cultural representations of female same-sex practices. The second analyzes female intimacy and homoerotism as imagined, appropriated and finally repudiated by Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral novel, L'Astrée, and Isaac de Benserade's seemingly lesbian-friendly comedy, Iphis et Iante. The third turns to unprecedented depictions of female intimate and homoerotic bonds in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Mathilde and Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force's fairy tale Plus Belle que Fée. This study reveals a female literary genealogy of intimacies between women in seventeenth-century France, and adds to the research in lesbian and queer studies, fields in which pre-eighteenth-century French literary texts are rare.