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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 essays by well-known feminist scholars from the wide range of 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. 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 ...
