Overview

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume one includes texts from 1521 through to 1615.

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Author:   Pamela J. Benson ,  Betty S. Travitsky ,  Anne Lake Prescott
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138378728

ISBN 10:   1138378720
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   12 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Christine de Pisan, Title page, Frontispiece, Part I (sigs. Aa2-Ff2) and Part 3 (sigs. Z2v-Z4v) in The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, Part 1 (trans Anslay, 1521); Thomas Elyot, The Defence of Good Women (1540); Edward Gosynhyll, The Scholehouse of women (1541?);The prayse of all women called Mulieru[m] Pean (1542); Robert Burdet or Robert Vaughan, A dyalogue defensyue for women (1542), A Letter sent by the Maydens of London (1567); C. Pyrrye, The Praise and Dispraise of Women (1569); Jane Anger, Iane Anger her Protection for Women (1588); Nicholas Breton, The Praise of vertuous Ladies, (sigs. Q4-Tv) in The Wil of Wit (1597); I.G., An apologie for Women-kinde (1605); Aemilia Lanyer, Title page and ’To the Vertvovs Reader’ (sigs. f3-f3v) in SalveE Devs Rex Ivdæorum(1611; STC 15227); Joseph Swetnam, The Araignment of lewd, idle, froward and vnconstant Women (1615).

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Pamela J. Benson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

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