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Women's roles in the Renaissance
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Women's roles in the Renaissance

Author: Meg Lota Brown; Kari Boyd McBride
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Series: Women's roles through history
Edition/Format: Book : English
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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, and enforced dependence. This book ex Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Meg Lota Brown; Kari Boyd McBride
ISBN: 0313322104 9780313322105
OCLC Number: 57893936
Description: xxxviii, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction : women and the Renaissance -- Women and education -- Women and the law -- Women and work -- Women and politics -- Women and religion -- Women and literature -- Women and the arts -- Women and pleasures.
Series Title: Women's roles through history
Responsibility: Meg Lota Brown and Kari Boyd McBride.
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Abstract:

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, and enforced dependence. This book 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 on both 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: education, the law, work, politics, religion, literature, the arts, and pleasures. Numerous women are profiled, and many period illustrations are included.--From publisher description.

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