Author: Juan Luis VivesPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Vives and the Renascence Education of Women
Author: Juan Luis VivesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Vives and the Renascence Education of Women
Author: Foster WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Education of Women During the Renaissance
Author: Mary Agnes CannonPublisher:
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Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Menacing Virgins
Author: Kathleen Coyne KellyPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The essays in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance examine the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity, and explore how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. As the title suggests, the virgin can be seen alternately or even simultaneously as menaced or menacing. To chart the history of virginity as a steady, evolutionary progression from a religious ideal in the Middle Ages toward a more secularized or sovereign ideal in the Renaissance would obscure how unstable a concept chastity is in both periods. What this collection demonstrates is that medieval and early modern attitudes toward virginity are not general and evolutionary, but specific, changeable, and often conflicted.
Women's Education in Early Modern Europe
Author: Barbara WhiteheadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135580944
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.
Invention of the Renaissance Woman
Author: Pamela Joseph BensonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271042121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, and thus are capable of being independent of male political and moral authority. Pamela Benson argues that the writers use literary means (genre, characterization, narrator, paradox, plot) to defeat the political challenge posed by female independence and to restrain women within a traditional role. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman is a study of the literary strategies used both to create the notion of the independent woman and to restrain her. Traditionally, the profeminism of most of these texts has not been taken seriously because their playful or extreme styles have been read as a sign that they were nothing but a game. Benson demonstrates that the flamboyant and frequently paradoxical style of these texts is the key to their successful profeminism. She defines the literary and conceptual differences between the Italian and English traditions and argues that two of the greatest literary works of the Renaissance, the Orlando furioso and The Faerie Queene, are major texts in the tradition of defense and praise of women. The Inventions of the Renaissance Women is the first substantial contextual discussion of the majority of the Italian texts and many of the English ones. Benson uses the insights of feminist theory and of cultural studies without subordinating the Renaissance texts to a modern political agenda. Among the authors discussed are Spenser, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Castiglione, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Thomas More, Thomas Elyot, Juan Luis Vives, Richard Hyrde, Jane Anger, and Henry Howard.
Hope Deferred (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Josephine KammPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135155798
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Hope Deferred, initially published in 1965 traces the history of girls’ education from Anglo-Saxon England to modern times, telling the story largely through the leading personalities whose opinions and prejudices shaped this history. It outlines the progress of popular education and the work of the pioneers who fought to bring girls’ education at every level into line with boys’; and it carries the story into the second half of the twentieth-century to discuss the problem of whether girls are really receiving the right kind of education.
Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England
Author: Eve Rachele SandersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521582346
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This 1999 book examines the role of literacy-education in promoting gender difference, as shown in English Renaissance texts.
A Cyclopedia of Education
Author: Paul MonroePublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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