Feminism and Renaissance Studies.Hutson, Lorna. Feminism and Renaissance Studies. (Oxford Readings in Feminism.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix + 480 pp. bibi, index. $74 (d), $19.95 (pbk). ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-19-878244-6 (cl), 0-19-878243-8(pbk). This collection of sixteen unabridged, previously published essays, plus one newly published essay, challenges the conceptual frameworks and universalizing tendencies of traditional Burckhardian Renaissance Studies, which "exclude women from significant cultural activity, or align them with an inferior type of creativity" Articles contain elements of feminist social history or deconstructive analyses of gender constitution, or both. Essays include: Joan Kelly, "Did Women Have a Renaissance?"; Lisa Jardine, "Woman Humanists: Education for What?"; Lorna Hutson, "The Housewife and the Humanists"; Stephanie Jed, "The Tenth Muse: Gender, Rationality, and the Marketing of Knowledge"; Ian Maclean, "The Notion of Woman in Medicine, Anatomy, and Physiology"; Natalie Zemon Davis Natalie Zemon Davis (born November 8, 1928) is a Canadian and American historian of early modern Europe. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened. For example, Trickster's Travels , "Women on Top"; Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, "The 'Cruel Mother': Maternity, Widowhood Widowhood Douglas, Widow adopted Huck Finn and took care of him. [Am. Lit.: Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn] Gummidge, Mrs . “a lone lorn creetur,” the Pegotty’s house-keeper. [Br. Lit. , and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries"; Lyndal Roper, "Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany"; Nancy J. Vickers Nancy J. Vickers is the seventh president of Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, a position she has held since 1997. She is referred to as 'Nancy J.' by the students there. She has announced her intention to step down as president of the college in June 2008. , "Diana D escribed: Scattered Woman and Scattered Rhyme"; Patricia Parker, "Literary Fat Ladies and the Generation of the Text"; Victoria Kahn, "Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract"; Ann Rosalind Jones, "Surprising Fame: Renaissance Gender Ideologies and Women's Lyric"; Sharon Achinstein, "Women on Top in the Pamphlet Literature of the English Revolution"; Fredrika Jacobs, "La Donnesca Mano ma·no n. pl. ma·nos A hand-held stone or roller for grinding corn or other grains on a metate. [Spanish, hand, mano, from Latin manus, hand; see manner.] "; Merry Wiesner, "Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany"; Laura Gowing, "Language, Power, and the Law: Women's Slander Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. in Early Modern London"; Tim Carter, "Finding a Voice: Vittoria Archilei and the Florentine 'New Music.'" |
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