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Paperback Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex Book

ISBN: 0226010597

ISBN13: 9780226010595

Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex

(Part of the The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Chicago Series Series)

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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...

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