Feminism and Renaissance Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-878244-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 819 g

Oxford Readings in Feminism

Series Editors: Teresa Brennan and Susan James

Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study.

Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the articles chosen represent the most important work on feminist issues, and concise, lively introductions to each volume crystallize the main lines of debate in the field.

Ever since the publication of Joan Kellys Did Women have a Renaissance? in 1977, feminist historians and critics have been challenging the claims traditionally made for the liberating effects of the intellectual and artistic energies released by the European Renaissance. By analysing the work of gender in the evaluative languages of traditional Renaissance historiography, and by finding strategies for restoring the agency of women to the historical account, feminist scholars have helped to transform the object of Renaissance Studies across a range of disciplines.

This collection brings together classic and more recent essays by feminist scholars in art, music, intellectual and social history, and the literature of the European vernaculars. It offers students and teachers a uniquely accessible introduction to the difference that academic feminism has made to the study of a period often claimed to be foundational to European modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutson, Lorna

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Notes of Contributors

- Introduction

- I. Humanism after Feminism

- 1: Joan Kelly: Did Women Have a Renaissance?

- 2: Lisa Jardine: Women Humanists: Education for What?

- 3: Lorna Hutson: The Housewife and the Humanists

- 4: Stephanie Jed: The Tenth Muse: Gender, Rationality, and the Marketing of Knowledge

- II. Historicizing Femininity

- 5: Ian Maclean: Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology

- 6: Natalie Zemon Davis: Women on Top

- 7: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber: The 'Cruel Mother': Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

- 8: Lyndal Roper: Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany

- III. Gender and Genre

- 9: Nancy J. Vickers: Diana Described: Scattered Woman and Scattered Rhyme

- 10: Patricia Parker: Literary Fat Ladies and the Generation of the Text

- 11: Victoria Kahn: Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract

- 12: Ann Rosalind Jones: Surprising Fame: Renaissance Gender Ideologies and Women's Lyric

- IV. Women's Agency

- 13: Sharon Achinstein: Women on Top in the Pamphlet Literature of the English Revolution

- 14: Fredrika Jacobs: La Donnesca Mano ('The Womanly Hand')

- 15: Merry Wiesner: Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany

- 16: Laura Gowing: Language, Power, and the Law: Women's Slander Litigation in Early Modern London

- 17: Tim Carter: Finding a Voice: Vittoria Archilei and the Florenine 'New Music'

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lorna Hutson is Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), and The Userer's Daughter (1994).