Ross, Sarah Gwyneth
The Birth of Feminism

Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England.

An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, the book focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in the world of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival material-wills, letters, and manuscript compositions, some presented here for the first time-and on printed writings, Ross gives us an unprecedented sense of educated early modern women's lives. IX,405 Seiten, gebunden (Harvard University Press 2009) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed