The birth of feminism : woman as intellect in Renaissance Italy and England / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.

By:

Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, 1975- [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674054530
0674054539

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Birth of feminism.DDC classification:

305.42/09/42 22

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HQ1641 .R68 2009eb

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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.

Review: "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."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-393) and index.

"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."--Jacket.