Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

Name: Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
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ISBN: 9780226100135

ISBN-10: 0226100138

ISBN-13: 9780226100135

Edition: 1997

Authors: Laura Cereta, Diana Robin

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Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469–1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue—the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of later centuries. Yet these letters also furnish a detailed portrait of an early modern woman’s private…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction to the Series


Acknowledgments


Translator's Introduction



Autobiography



Women and Society



Marriage and Mourning



Woman to Woman



The Public Lectures



Dialogue on the Death of an Ass


Bibliography


Index