Feminism and Renaissance Studies

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This collection brings together seventeen essays by well-known feminist scholars across the disciplines that make up Renaissance Studies. It forms an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract 'Renaissance Man' of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender in the formation of European modernity. Zusammenfassung This collection brings together seventeen essays by well-known feminist scholars across the disciplines that make up Renaissance Studies. It forms an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract 'Renaissance Man' of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender in the formation of European modernity.

Summary

This collection brings together seventeen essays by well-known feminist scholars across the disciplines that make up Renaissance Studies. It forms an accessible introduction to the ways in which feminism has replaced the universal, abstract 'Renaissance Man' of traditional scholarship with strategies for the analysis of the conceptual work of gender in the formation of European modernity.

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• Authors: Lorna Hutson, Lorna (Professor of English Literature Hutson
• Assisted by: Lorna Hutson (Editor), Lorna (Professor of English Literature Hutson (Editor), Hutson Lorna (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.1999
• EAN: 9780198782438
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878243-8
• No. of pages: 490
• Series: Oxford Readings in Feminism; Oxford Readings in Feminism (P; Oxford Readings in Feminism (P; Oxford Readings in Feminism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Europe, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, CE period up to c 1500, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Regional / International studies, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Feminism and feminist theory, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval