Voicing Women
Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing
Kate Chedgzoy editor Melanie Hanson editor Suzanne Trill editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:9th Jun '98
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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.
Voicing Women is a highly accessible reflection of the vibrancy, diversity and political commitment in early modern feminist scholarship...[It offers] rich discoveries to their readers, showing us both previously hidden Renaissance texts and histories, and hidden contemporary agendas for reading the Renaissance as we do. -- English Voicing Women is a highly accessible reflection of the vibrancy, diversity and political commitment in early modern feminist scholarship...[It offers] rich discoveries to their readers, showing us both previously hidden Renaissance texts and histories, and hidden contemporary agendas for reading the Renaissance as we do.
ISBN: 9781853311840
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 528g
208 pages