Whether a Christian Woman Should be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle

Introduction to the SeriesIntroduction: Anna Maria van Schurman and Her Intellectual Circle Selections from the Writings of Anna Maria van Schurman A Practical Problem: Whether the Study of Letters Is Fitting for a Christian Woman Correspondence with Andre Rivet on this Question Correspondence with Other Women Eukleria, chapters 1 and 2 Concerning Women Gisbertus VoetiusCh. I: The Natural Status and Condition of Women Ch. II: The Secular and Political Status of Women Ch. III: The Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Status of Women Bibliography Index

Summary

Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was an advocate and exemplar of women's education, this text contains her writings on the defence of women's education, her letters to other learned women, her own account of her early life as well as responses to her work from male contemporaries

Product details

• Authors: Anna Maria Van Schurman, Van Schurman, Anna Maria van Schurman
• Assisted by: Joyce L. Irwin (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1998
• EAN: 9780226849997
• ISBN: 978-0-226-84999-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 155 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Eu; Other Voice in Early Modern Eu; The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe; Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (CHUP); The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories