ISBN:
9780415120456
,
0415120454
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9780415120463
,
0415120462
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9780203360132
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0203360133
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 316 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Brammall, Kathryn [Rezension von: Aughterson, Kate, Renaissance Woman: Constructions of Femininity in England...] 2002
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Renaissance woman
DDC:
305.40942
Keywords:
Femininity Sources
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History
;
Renaissance Sources
;
England
;
Women Sources
;
History
;
Renaissance, 1450-1600
;
England
;
Renaissance Sources
;
Women Sources History Renaissance, 1450-1600
;
Femininity Sources History
;
Femininity History
;
Renaissance England
;
Women History
;
Renaissance, 1450-1600
;
England
;
Electronic books
;
Renaissance
;
Women ; Renaissance
;
Mulher e feminismo
;
Historia moderna
;
Femininity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
History
;
Sources
;
England
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books
;
Quelle
;
Quelle
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note:1.Theology --Bible --John Calvin, Sermons --first examination of Ann Askew --Certain sermons or homilies --Church of England, Canons --Thomas Becon, Catechism --Sermons: Thomas Adams, Meditations upon the creed --Sermons: William Whately, A bride bush --Women preaching: Thomas Edwards, Gangraena --Women preaching: Margaret Fell Fox, Women's preaching justified --2.Physiology --Aristotle: The history of animals --Aristotle: The generation of animals --Galen, On the usefulness of the parts of the body --Gynacea: Martin Akakia, On women's illnesses --Gynacea: Ludovic Mercatus, On the common conditions of women --Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia --Nicolas Culpeper, A directory for midwives --Nicholas Fontanus, The woman's doctor --complete midwife's practice enlarged --3.Conduct --Juan Luis Vives, The instruction of a Christian woman -- ^debate on dress: Philip Stubbes, The anatomy of abuses --debate on dress: John Rainoldes, The overthrow of stage plays --debate on dress: John Williams, A sermon of apparell --Marital conduct books: Robert Dod and John Cleaver, A godly form of household government --Marital conduct books: Henry Smith, A preparative to marriage --Marital conduct books: Richard Brathwait, The English gentlewoman --Brides' duties: Samuel Rowlands, The bride --Brides' duties: William Gouge, Of domestical duties --Banabe Rich, My lady's looking glass --William Vaughan, The golden grove --Dorothy Leigh, The mother's blessing --4.Sexuality and Motherhood --Desiderius Erasmus, The woman in childbed --Henry Bullinger, The Christian state of matrimony --Eucharius Roesslin, The birth of mankind, otherwise named the woman's book --Thomas Becon, The book of matrimony --Elizabeth Grymestone, Miscelanea, meditations, memoratives -- ^
Abstract:
Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook is an invaluable collection of accounts of women and femininity in early modern England. The volume is divided thematically into nine sections, each with an accessible introduction, notes on sources and an annotated bibliography. The sections are:* Theology * Biology * Conduct * Sexuality and Motherhood * Politics and Law * Education * Work * Writing and Speaking * Feminism Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook brings together sources ranging from medical documents and political pamphlets to sermons and the Bible, as well as lit
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-305) and index. - Description based on print version record
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