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Author Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645.

Title Apology for the woman writing and other works / Marie de Gournay ; edited and translated by Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel ; general and section introductions by Richard Hillman
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 176 pages)
Series The other voice in early modern Europe
Other voice in early modern Europe.
Contents Introduction to Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) -- The promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne (1594). Introduction ; The printer to the reader ; Dedicatory epistle ; The promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne, for himself -- The equality of men and women (1641). Introduction ; Dedication ; The equality of men and women -- The ladies' complainte (1641). Introduction ; The ladies' complaint -- Apology for the woman writing (1641). Introduction. Apology for the woman writing
Summary During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period in France. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. Two of these appear here in English for the first time?The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne and The Apology for the Woman Writing. One
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index
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Subject Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645 -- Translations into English
SUBJECT Gournay, Marie Le Jars de, 1565-1645 fast
Subject Women's rights -- Early works to 1800
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Women's rights
Vrouwen.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Early works
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Hillman, Richard, 1949-
Quesnel, Colette.
ISBN 9780226305264
0226305260
9780226305554
0226305554
9780226305561
0226305562
9786611125691
6611125698
Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 2002