Gender and Power in the Renaissance
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
This seminar will explore aspects of the explicit and symbolic relationships between gender and power in the Renaissance as expressed in works of political philosophy and educational theory, plays and advice manuals, and more traditional historical documents. Along with theses original sources, participants read a selection of secondary commentaries, mostly articles, by historians of women, feminist literary critics, and theorists of gender. All required readings w4ere in English, but participants were also encouraged to read more deeply on specific topics from the Newberry’s extensive holdings of original works by and bout women in both English and other major European languages.
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