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Author Brown, Meg Lota.

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

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.4094 B879W    Check Shelf
Description xxxviii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Women's roles through history
Women's roles through history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-320) and index.
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.
Summary 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.
Subject Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Sex role -- Europe -- History.
Social role -- Europe -- History.
Social change -- Europe -- History.
Renaissance.
Vrouwen.
Soziale Situation.
Frau.
Renaissance.
Soziale Rolle.
Europe -- Social conditions.
Added Author McBride, Kari Boyd.
Other Form: Online version: Brown, Meg Lota. Women's roles in the Renaissance. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005 (OCoLC)651979579
ISBN 0313322104 (alkaline paper)
9780313322105 (alkaline paper)
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