Renaissance Feminism: Toward the Third Republic

by Constance Jordan

Book Overview

Considering a wide range of Renaissance works of nonfiction, Jordan asserts that feminism as a mode of thought emerged as early as the fifteenth century in Italy, and that the main arguments for the social equality of the sexes were common in the sixteenth century. Renaissance feminism, she maintains, was a feature of a broadly revisionist movement that regarded the medieval model of creation as static and hierarchical and favored a model that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801497329
• ISBN13: 9780801497322
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"