Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex write by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility 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 raised the question of why women were excluded and provided 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, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.
Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex write by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. This book was released on 1996-09-15. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility 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 raised the question of why women were excluded and provided 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, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.
The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men
The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men write by Lucrezia Marinella. This book was released on 2007-11-01. The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A gifted poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic, and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella's masterpiece, The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men was first published in 1600, composed at a furious pace in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects. This polemic displays Marinella's vast knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso. Trying to effect real social change, Marinella argued that morally, intellectually, and in many other ways, women are superior to men.
Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex write by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. This book was released on 1998. Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist write by Laura Cereta. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469–1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue—the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of later centuries. Yet these letters also furnish a detailed portrait of an early modern woman’s private experience, for Cereta addressed many letters to a close circle of family and friends, discussing highly personal concerns such as her difficult relationships with her mother and her husband. Taken together, these letters are a testament both to an individual woman and to enduring feminist concerns.
