Declamation On The Nobility And Preeminence Of The Female Sex
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Author |
: Henricus Cornelius Agrippa |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226010601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226010600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex by : Henricus Cornelius Agrippa
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.
Author |
: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 154 |
Release |
: 1996-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226010589 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226010588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex by : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
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.
Author |
: Lucrezia Marinella |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226505503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226505502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men by : Lucrezia Marinella
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.
Author |
: Laura Cereta |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226721583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226721582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist by : Laura Cereta
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.
Author |
: Heinrich Agrippa |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 60 |
Release |
: 2016-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1535325321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781535325325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Female Preeminence by : Heinrich Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa is best known for his three books of Occult Philosophy. Living in the 16th century, Agrippa was a true Renaissance man, and this text shows his full philosophical capabilities on display. Pointing to the trope of the heroine and the divine feminine, Agrippa decries his "giddy age" and condemns the abuse of women in legal and social affairs, using multiple spiritual traditions to point to their actual philosophical equality.
Author |
: Marie le Jars de Gournay |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226305264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226305260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works by : Marie le Jars de Gournay
During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period in France. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. Two of these appear here in English for the first time—The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne and The Apology for the Woman Writing. One of the first modern psychological novels, the best-selling Promenade was also the first to explore female sexual feeling. With the autobiographical Apology, Gournay defended every aspect of her life, from her moral conduct to her household management. The book also includes Gournay's last revisions (1641) of her two best-known feminist treatises, The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Complaint. The editors provide a general overview of Gournay's career, as well as individual introductions and extensive annotations for each work.
Author |
: Gabrielle Suchon |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2010-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226779232 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226779238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex by : Gabrielle Suchon
During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632–1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women’s freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon’s writing from two works—Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)—and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them equally to essentially human prerogatives, and she displays her breadth of knowledge as she harnesses evidence from biblical, classical, patristic, and contemporary secular sources to bolster her claim. Forgotten over the centuries, these writings have been gaining increasing attention from feminist historians, students of philosophy, and scholars of seventeenth-century French literature and culture. This translation, from Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, marks the first time these works will appear in English.
Author |
: Emilie Du Châtelet |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 454 |
Release |
: 2009-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226168081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226168085 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings by : Emilie Du Châtelet
Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in French. Had she been a man, her reputation as a member of the eighteenth-century French intellectual elite would have been assured. In the 1970s, feminist historians of science began the slow work of recovering Du Châtelet’s writings and her contributions to history and philosophy. For this edition, Judith P. Zinsser has selected key sections from Du Châtelet’s published and unpublished works, as well as related correspondence, part of her little-known critique of the Old and New Testaments, and a treatise on happiness that is a refreshingly uncensored piece of autobiography—making all of them available for the first time in English. The resulting volume will recover Châtelet’s place in the pantheon of French letters and culture.
Author |
: Margaret L. King |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2008-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226436333 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226436330 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Teaching Other Voices by : Margaret L. King
The books in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series chronicle the heretofore neglected stories of women between 1400 and 1700 with the aim of reviving scholarly interest in their thought as expressed in a full range of genres: treatises, orations, and history; lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry; novels and novellas; letters, biography, and autobiography; philosophy and science. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe complements these rich volumes by identifying themes useful in literature, history, religion, women's studies, and introductory humanities courses. The volume's introduction, essays, and suggested course materials are intended as guides for teachers--but will serve the needs of students and scholars as well.
Author |
: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226204444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226204448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes by : Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–80) and René Descartes (1596–1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters—thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth, revealing her mastery of metaphysics, analytic geometry, and moral philosophy, as well as her keen interest in natural philosophy. The letters are essential reading for anyone interested in Descartes’s philosophy, in particular his account of the human being as a union of mind and body, as well as his ethics. They also provide a unique insight into the character of their authors and the way ideas develop through intellectual collaboration. Philosophers have long been familiar with Descartes’s side of the correspondence. Now Elisabeth’s letters—never before available in translation in their entirety—emerge this volume, adding much-needed context and depth both to Descartes’s ideas and the legacy of the princess. Lisa Shapiro’s annotated edition—which also includes Elisabeth’s correspondence with the Quakers William Penn and Robert Barclay—will be heralded by students of philosophy, feminist theorists, and historians of the early modern period.