| Description |
1 online resource (143 pages) |
| Series |
The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe |
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Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| Contents |
Editors' Introduction to the Series; Foreword; Note on the Text; Agrippa and the Feminist Tradition; Suggestions for Further Reading; Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex; Index of Biblical References; General Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
agrippa, feminism, gender, women, masculinity, superiority, rhetoric, public sphere, misogyny, exclusion, sexism, bible, religion, christianity, catholicism, medicine, ancient greece, roman empire, canon, law, theology, philosophy, ethics, morality, politics, social conditioning, education, prejudice, oppression, nonfiction, norms, femininity, liberty, rights, career, labor, ambition, art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Early works to 1800
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Feminism -- Early works to 1800
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Feminism
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Women
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rabil, Albert, Jr.
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| LC no. |
96003307 |
| ISBN |
9780226010601 |
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0226010600 |
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128112527X |
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9781281125279 |
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0226010589 |
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9780226010588 |
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0226010597 |
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9780226010595 |
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9786611125271 |
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6611125272 |
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