Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
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Originally published in 1529, theDeclamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sexargues 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 raised the question of why women were excluded and provided 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, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Henricus Cornelius Agrippa. Translated & Edited by Albert Rabil
Jr. - Language
- English
- Series
- Other Voices in Early Modern Europe
- ISBN
- 9780226010601
- Release date
- 1996
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Originally published in 1529, theDeclamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sexargues that women are more than equal to men in all things that...