A01=Pamela J. Benson
Author_Pamela J. Benson
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early modern English gender discourse
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gender polemics England
literary gender debates
philogyny literature
pro-woman arguments
seventeenth-century polemics
women's rights history
Product details
- ISBN 9780754631149
- Weight: 1179g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 two includes texts from 1616 through to 1640.
Pamela J. Benson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
