Details

Subject(s)

• Feminism—Italy—History [Browse]
• Feminism—England—History [Browse]
• Women and literature—Italy—History [Browse]
• Women and literature—England—History [Browse]

Summary note

"In this work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of "woman" in the West."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-393) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

ISBN

• 9780674054530 ((electronic bk.))
• 0674054539 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

654443161

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