A Cultural History of Women in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series) - Hardcover

9780857850997: A Cultural History of Women in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series)

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ISBN 10: 0857850997 ISBN 13: 9780857850997

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

The Renaissance was a period of significant cultural transformation in Europe: women were both agents and objects of this historical process. The period witnessed revolutions in nearly every cultural domain, including the controversies of the Reformation, the rise of nascent capitalism, the influence of Humanism, advances in science and medicine, and shifts in the boundaries between public and private life, all of which profoundly
affected women's lives.

A Cultural History of Women in the Renaissance covers the period 1400-1650, giving an overview of how changes in social, educational, economic, scientific, religious and artistic paradigms affected cultural constructions of gender and the lived experiences of women in the period. Each chapter draws on a wide range of sources to chart the complex and often contradictory cultural logics of gender in Renaissance culture.

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Book Description:

A broad overview of the history of women in the Renaissance.

About the Author:

Karen Raber is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, USA. She is author of Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama, and editor of several books on women writers, animals, and early modern ecology.

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