Texts from the Querelle, 1521-1615 - Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed)

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume one includes texts from 1521 through to 1615.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Pamela J. Benson
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	536
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-3112-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7546-3112-5
Barcode:	9780754631125

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