Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) - Softcover

Agrippa, Henricus Cornelius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226010597 ISBN 13: 9780226010595

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded.

Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors. His declamation, disseminated through the printing press, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr.edit the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series for the University of Chicago Press.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0226010597
• ISBN 13: 9780226010595
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 141
• Editor: Rabil Jr. Albert