The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two
Texts from the Querelle, 1521–1615: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 1
1st Edition
By Pamela J. Benson
June 12, 2019
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 ...
'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526–1635: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 8
1st Edition
By Ian Munro
June 07, 2019
By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the...
Texts from the Querelle, 1641–1701 (2): Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 4
1st Edition
By Laura L. Runge
June 07, 2019
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 ...
Texts from the Querelle, 1616–1640: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 2
1st Edition
By Pamela J. Benson
July 04, 2008
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 ...






