Feminism and Renaissance Studies

Abstract

Notes of Contributors Introduction I. HUMANISM AFTER FEMINISM 1. Did Women Have a Renaissance? 2. Women Humanists: Education for What? 3. The Housewife and the Humanists 4. The Tenth Muse: Gender, Rationality, and the Marketing of Knowledge II. HISTORICIZING FEMININITY 5. Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology 6. Women on Top 7. The 'Cruel Mother': Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 8. Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany III. GENDER AND GENRE 9. Diana Described: Scattered Woman and Scattered Rhyme 10. Literary Fat Ladies and the Generation of the Text 11. Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract 12. Surprising Fame: Renaissance Gender Ideologies and Women's Lyric IV. WOMEN'S AGENCY 13. Women on Top in the Pamphlet Literature of the English Revolution 14. La Donnesca Mano ('The Womanly Hand') 15. Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany 16. Language, Power, and the Law: Women's Slander Litigation in Early Modern London 17. Finding a Voice: Vittoria Archilei and the Florenine 'New Music' Bibliography Index

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