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Voicing Women

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing

Kate Chedgzoy editor Melanie Hanson editor Suzanne Trill editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:1st Jan '96

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Voicing Women offers fresh, theoretically inspired readings of women Renaissance writers, as well as detailed critical introductions and notes. It reveals the extent of the material restraints on women's expression in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illustrating the difficulties faced by women writers and their strategies to overcome them. The use of female voices in male-authored texts and the different ways in which the body is portrayed by male and female writers is discussed in detail, and there are revelations about the religious and political contexts of the women's work. This will be an invaluable resource for all those studying Renaissance texts.

The quality of the argument isbetter than that of most writing on gender ... The volume challenges some dogmas of feminism which were becoming stifling ... (A) useful book. -- Penny McCarthy The quality of the argument isbetter than that of most writing on gender ... The volume challenges some dogmas of feminism which were becoming stifling ... (A) useful book.

ISBN: 9781853311086

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208 pages