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Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex Paperback - 1996

by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa


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Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues 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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Originally published in 1529, the Declamation of the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex argues 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 raises the question of why women were excluded and provides 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, illustrates the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.

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  • Title Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
  • Author Henricus Cornelius Agrippa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 142
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-09-15
  • ISBN 9780226010595 / 0226010597
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.97 x 0.44 in (22.73 x 15.16 x 1.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Early works to 1800, Feminism - Early works to 1800
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96003307
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.4

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  • Library Journal, 08/01/1996, Page 0

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Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr.edit the Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series for the University of Chicago Press.
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