Impressively examines the relation sixteenth-century controversies about the nature of women have to literature and life.

An invaluable collection of primary sources on women and femininity in early modern England, including medical documents, political pamphlets, sermons and liter

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Ten feminist-materialist explorations of the oppression of women in England from the early Renaissance to the 1650s, draw on women's place in courtesy books, ro