| Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women Contributor(s): Levin, Carole (Editor), Sullivan, Patricia A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791425452 ISBN-13: 9780791425459 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 94032811 |
| Series: Suny Communication Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.26 lbs) 293 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The authors examine the political rhetoric of a number of powerful women of the Renaissance, male responses to this rhetoric, drama and fiction by both male and female authors considering women and political context, and how historians--then and now--have evaluated powerful women. A multi-disciplinary collection, the book includes an essay about Christine de Pizan and her fifteenth-century look at powerful women, an examination of seventeeth-century rhetoricians and how they viewed and reshaped the Renaissance in terms of giving power to women, and examples of English and French women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The afterword contextualizes these examples and raises questions about modern issues. The book provides a greater understanding of gender and power in the Renaissance as well as insights into the contemporary age. |
