Cover; Contents; Note on the Texts and Translations; Introduction; The Equality of Men and Women; The Ladies' Complaint; A Dissertation on the Natural Capacity of Women for Study and Learning; Excerpts from the Correspondence; Excerpts from Eukleria; A Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes; Conversations concerning the Education of Ladies [Excerpt]; Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
Summary
Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society was debated in Western culture from the civilization of ancient Greece to the establishment of early Christian churches. There had also been some proponents of women's superiority (in comparison with men) prior to the early modernperiod. In contrast with both of these claims, the seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued
