Women's roles in the Renaissance / Meg Lota Brown and Kari Boyd McBride.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Meg Lota.

Contributor:

McBride, Kari Boyd.

Series:

Women's roles through history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Women.

History.

Sex role--Europe--History.

Sex role.

Social change.

Social role.

Europe.

Social role--Europe--History.

Social change--Europe--History.

Europe--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.

Summary:

For the first time, a content-rich survey on Renaissance women for students and the general public is available. The story of the Renaissance has usually been told through the elite male perspective. Here, the lives of women and girls from a wide range of classes, religions, and countries in Europe take center stage. Women had a significant impact on the economy, social structures, and the culture of the Renaissance, despite the constraints on their exercise of power, lack of opportunities, enforced dependence, and exclusion from politics, government, science, law, banking, and more. Women's Roles in the Renaissance examines the attitudes and practices that shaped the varied roles of women then, but also the important ways women shaped the world in which they lived. The focus is both on the ideas that circulated about women and on the difference between representations of them and their everyday life experiences. The narrative draws from a wide variety of sources on every aspect of women's lives. Narrative topical chapters cover women and education, the law, work, politics, religion, literature, the arts, and pleasures. Numerous women are profiled, and a plethora of quotations and examples of their work provides a sense of their spirit. Many period illustrations are included to highlight the text. This will prove to be a most valuable one-volume resource on a high-interest topic.

Contents:

Introduction : Women and the Renaissance

Women and education

Women under the law

Women and work

Women and politics

Women and religion

Women and literature

Women and the arts

Women and pleasures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0313322104

OCLC:

57893936