Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook: Constructions of Femininity in England

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ISBN: 9780415120463 | 0415120462
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Copyright: 12/18/1995

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Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebookbrings together extracts of significant accounts of woman and femininity in early modern England. Providing versatile and accessible readings of gender construction in this period, this book offers the reader a broader historical context, without the interpretive baggage of secondary readings. Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebookcontains sources ranging from medical documents and political pamphlets to sermons and the Bible, as well as literary texts by and about women. Sections include: theology; physiology; conduct; sexuality and motherhood; politics and law; education; work; writing and speaking; and proto-feminisms. The selections within each section cover a wide chronology, from 1520 to 1680, as well as a range of viewpoints about each area.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

xiii

Introduction

(8)

Theology

Introduction

(2)

The Bible

(4)

John Calvin, Sermons

(3)

The first examination of Ann Askew

(2)

Certain sermons or homilies

(5)

Church of England, Canons

(1)

Thomas Becon, Catechism

(3)

Sermons:

Thomas Adams, Meditations upon the creed

(2)

William Whately, A bride bush

(4)

Women preaching:

Thomas Edwards, Gangraena

(2)

Margaret Fell Fox, Women's preaching justified

(4)

Physiology

Introduction

(2)

Aristotle:

The history of animals

(1)

The generation of animals

(3)

Galen, On the usefulness of the parts of the body

(2)

Gynacea:

Martin Akakia, On women's illnesses

(2)

Ludovic Mercatus, On the common conditions of women

(3)

Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia

(3)

Nicolas Culpeper, A directory for midwives

(3)

Nicholas Fontanus, The woman's doctor

(4)

The complete midwife's practice enlarged

(3)

Conduct

Introduction

(2)

Juan Luis Vives, The instruction of a Christian woman

(5)

The debate on dress:

Philip Stubbes, The anatomy of abuses

(3)

John Rainoldes, The overthrow of stage plays

(1)

John Williams, A sermon of apparell

(2)

Marital conduct books:

Robert Dod and John Cleaver, A godly form of household government

(3)

Henry Smith, A preparative to marriage

(2)

Richard Brathwait, The English gentlewoman

(1)

Brides' duties:

Samuel Rowlands, The bride

(4)

William Gouge, Of domestical duties

(6)

Banabe Rich, My lady's looking glass

(1)

William Vaughan, The Golden grove

(2)

Dorothy Leigh, The mother's blessing

(5)

Sexuality and Motherhood

Introduction

103

(2)

Desiderius Erasmus, The woman in childbed

105

(1)

Henry Bullinger, The Christian state of matrimony

106

(2)

Eucharius Roesslin, The birth of mankind, otherwise named the woman's book

108

(2)

Thomas Becon, The book of matrimony

110

(4)

Elizabeth Grymestone, Miscelanea, meditations, memoratives

114

(1)

Christopher Newstead, An apology for women: or women's defence

115

(1)

Elizabeth Clinton, The Countess of Lincoln's nursery

116

(4)

Devotional advice on childbirth:

Thomas Bentley, The monument of matrons

120

(2)

Christopher Hooke, The childbirth

122

(1)

Alexander Niccholes, A discourse of marriage and wiving

123

(1)

Nicolas Culpeper, A directory for midwives

124

(3)

Sarah Jinner, An almanac

127

(2)

Jane Sharp, The midwife's book

129

(1)

Francesco Barbaro, Directions for love and marriage

130

(1)

Aphra Behn, To the fair Clorinda

131

(2)

Political and Law

Introduction

133

(3)

Aristotle, Politics

136

(1)

Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian woman

137

(1)

John Knox, The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women

138

(2)

John Aylmer, An harborow for faithful and true subjects

140

(2)

John Leslie, A defence of the honour of the right high, mighty and noble princess Marie Queen of Scotland

142

(2)

Thomas Smith, The commonwealth of England

144

(1)

James I, The true law of free monarchies

145

(2)

Robert Pricke, The doctrine of superiority, and of subjection

147

(2)

William Gouge, Of domestical duties

149

(1)

William Perkins, Christian economy

150

(1)

William Heale, An apology for women

151

(1)

T.E., The law's resolution of women's rights

152

(5)

Matthew Griffith, Bethel

157

(2)

A true copy of the petition of the gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives

159

(2)

Robert Filmer, Patriarcha

161

(4)

Education

Introduction

165

(3)

Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of a Christian woman

168

(3)

Desiderius Erasmus, Colloquy of the abbot and learned woman

171

(2)

Richard Hyrde, Preface

173

(2)

Thomas Becon, Catechism

175

(2)

Thomas Salter, The mirror of modesty

177

(1)

Richard Mulcaster, Positions

178

(4)

Bartholomew Batty, The Christian man's closet

182

(1)

Elizabeth Jocelyn, The mother's legacy to her unborn child

183

(3)

Bathshua Makin, An essay to revive the ancient education of gentlewomen

186

(7)

Work

Introduction

193

(2)

John Fitzherbert, The book of husbandry

195

(3)

Thomas Tusser, A hundred good points of housewifery

198

(6)

John Jones, The art and science of preserving body and soul

204

(2)

Mary Ward, Letter to Pope Paul V

206

(2)

Patrick Hannay, A happy husband

208

(2)

John Taylor, The needle's excellency

210

(2)

R. Garnet, The book of oaths

212

(2)

Preaching work:

Sarah Cheevers and Katherine Evans, This is a short relation of some of the cruel sufferings

214

(3)

Joan Brooksop, An invitation of love

217

(2)

Sarah Jinner, An almanac

219

(2)

Jane Sharp, The midwife's book

221

(2)

Mary Trye, Medicatrix, or the woman-physician

223

(2)

Advice to the women and maidens of London

225

(4)

Writing And Speaking

Introduction

229

(3)

Baldassare Castiglione, The courtier

232

(1)

Margaret Tyler, The mirror of princely deeds and knighthood

233

(3)

Thomas Bentley, The monument of matrons

236

(1)

Philip Stubbes, A crystal glass for Christian women

237

(7)

Richard Brathwait, Essays

244

(2)

Gervase Markham, The English housewife

246

(2)

John Vicars, The schismatic sifted

248

(1)

Dorothy Waugh, The lamb's defence against lies

249

(1)

Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole, To the priests and people of England

250

(3)

Eliza's Babes

253

(2)

Sarah Jinner, An almanac

255

(1)

Katherine Philips, Poems

256

(2)

Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance

258

(3)

Proto-Feminisms

Introduction

261

(3)

Cornelius Agrippa, A treatise of the nobility and excellency of woman-kind

264

(2)

Jane Anger her protection for women

266

(2)

Aemilia Lanyer, Salve deus rex judeaorum

268

(1)

Daniel Tuvil, Asylum veneris

269

(1)

Rachel Speght, A mouzell for Melastomus

270

(7)

William Austin, Haec homo

277

(2)

Jane Owen, An antidote against purgatory

279

(1)

To the supreme authority of England, the commons assembled in parliament

280

(3)

Eliza's Babes

283

(3)

Margaret Cavendish, The philosophical and physical opinions

286

(3)

Poulain de la Barre, The woman as good as the man, of the equality of both sexes

289

(2)

Notes

291

(8)

Select secondary bibliography

299

(8)

Index

307

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