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Author Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.

Title Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex / Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ; translated and edited with an introduction by Albert Rabil, Jr.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.4 A279D    Check Shelf
Description xxxii, 109 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary Originally published in 1529, the Declamation of the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raises the question of why women were excluded and provides answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors. His declamation, disseminated through the printing press, illustrates the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.
Subject Women -- Early works to 1800.
Feminism -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author Rabil, Albert, Jr.
Added Title Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus. English
ISBN 0226010589 cloth alkaline paper
9780226010588 cloth alkaline paper
0226010597 paperback alkaline paper
9780226010595 paperback alkaline paper
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