Texts from the Querelle, 1641–1701 (2)
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early modern polemics
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gender roles in early modern Europe
historical misogyny texts
patriarchal customs critique
querelle des femmes
seventeenth-century debates
women's spiritual equality
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- ISBN 9780754653035
- Weight: 884g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The querelle des femmes was a debate over the condition of women in society lasting four centuries and characteristically involved charges against female vice, folly, corruption, incontinence and lasciviousness, countered by pro-women defences and lists of exemplary women. The texts in these two volumes range from broadside parliamentary petitions to verse satire, from sermons to philosophical essays, from political diatribes to marital advice. The defences all respond to attacks on women, and although none argues for women's citizenship or social equality, many claim an original or spiritual equality, and blame custom and male corruption for female subjection. The volumes are arranged into five sections covering Politics, Preaching and Silence, Sexuality, Marriage and Two Contrapuntal Defences.
Laura L. Runge is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida, USA.
