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A Rule For Children And Other Writings

by Jacqueline Pascal

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 This work presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women.
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The Nobility And Excellence Of Women And The Defects And Vices Of Men

by Lucrezia Marinella

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 First published in 1600 in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects, this polemic displays Lucrezia Marinella's knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso.
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Selected Philosophical And Scientific Writings

by Emilie Du Chatelet

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 Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime. This book features a selection of key sections from Du Chatelet's works.
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Sacred Narratives

by Lucrezia Tornabuoni De' Medici

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 This is a collection of Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's body of religious poems. Ranging from lyrics on the Nativity to dialogues between Christ and the sinner who kneels before him, the nine poems of praise included here are among the few such poems known to have been written by the woman.
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Dialogue On The Infinity Of Love

by Tullia D'Aragona

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 First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind.
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Wattana - An Orangutan In Paris

by Chris Herzfeld

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 "Originally appeared in French as Wattana: un orang-outan aa Paris, A Editions Payot et Rivages, 2012."--Title page verso.
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The Chicago Guide To Writing About Numbers, Second Edition

by Jane E, Ph. Miller

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The Territories Of Science And Religion

by Peter Harrison

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 The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? The author illuminates alternative boundaries and known relations between them thereby making it possible for you to learn from their true history, and more.
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Southern Provisions - The Creation And Revival Of A Cuisine

by David S. Shields

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 Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. This book reveals how the true ingredients of southern cooking have been all but forgotten and how the lessons of its restoration and recultivation can be applied to other regional foodways.
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Letters And Orations

by Cassandra Fedele

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 By the end of the 15th century Cassandra Fedele was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. This collection of letters reveals the central, mediating role Cassandra Fedele occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women.
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Book For The Hour Of Recreation

by Maria De San Jose Salazar

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 Maria de San Jose Salazar took the veil as a discalced (barefoot) Carmelite nun in 1571, becoming one of Teresa de Avila's most important collaborators in religious reform. This work is a defense of the practice of setting aside hours of the day for conversation, music and plays.
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Complete Poetry And Prose - A Bilingual Edition

by Louise Labe

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 Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. This bilingual edition features the translations of Labe's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the rhymed translation of Labe's elegies in their entirety.
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Floridoro - A Chivalric Romance

by Moderata Fonte

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 An original chivalric poem written by an Italian woman, 'Floridoro' imbues a strong feminist ethos into a hypermasculine genre.
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The Education Of A Christian Woman - A Sixteenth-Century Manual

by Juan Luis Vives

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 Vives advocated education for all women, regardless of social class and ability. From childhood through adolescence to marriage and widowhood, this manual offers advice as well as philosophical meditation. Vives stressed that women were intellectually equal if not superior to men.
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Autobiography Of An Aspiring Saint

by Cecilia Ferrazzi

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 Cecelia Ferrazzi's inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony are here transcribed and translated into English, allowing the reader an insight into an unfamiliar sector of the past.
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Who Is Mary? - Three Early Modern Women On The Idea Of The Virgin Mary

by Chiara Matraini, Lucrezia Marinella e Vittoria Colonna

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 For women of the Italian Renaissance, the Virgin Mary was one of the most important role models. This book testifies to the emotional and spiritual relationships that women had with the figure of Mary, whom they were required to emulate as the epitome of femininity.
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Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises

by Francois Poullain De La, Marcelle Maistr Welch e Vivien Bosley

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 Applying Cartesian principles to "The Woman Question" Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the inequality of the sexes was merely prejudice. Poullain advocated an enlightened feminine education, laying the groundwork for the future liberation movement.
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Zayde - A Spanish Romance

by Marie-Madeleine Lafayette

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 Unfolding the medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula, this book takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances - from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again - with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the noble lovers.
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Isaac Israeli - A Neoplatonic Philosopher Of The Early Tenth Century

by Isaac Israeli

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 Recognized as one of the earliest Jewish Neoplatonist writers, Isaac ben Solomon Israeli (ca 855-955) influenced Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars through the Middle Ages. This book contains English translations of Israeli's philosophical writings, including the "Book of Definitions", and the "Book of Substances".
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Declamation On The Nobility And Preeminence Of The Female Sex

by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa

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 Originally published in 1529, this work argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they have long been excluded.
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Friedrich D?Rrenmatt - Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays

by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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 The Swiss writer Friedrick Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the 20th century. His key plays, gathered in this volume explores such themes as guilt by passivity, the refusal of responsibility, and greed and political decay."
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Whether A Christian Woman Should Be Educated And Other Writings From Her Intellectual Circle

by Anna Maria Van Schurman

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 Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was an advocate and exemplar of women's education, this text contains her writings on the defence of women's education, her letters to other learned women, her own account of her early life as well as responses to her work from male contemporaries
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Warnings To The Kings And Advice On Restoring Spain - A Bilingual Edition

by Maria De Guevara

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 Guevara's writings call on Spanish women to bear responsibility equally with men for restoring Spain's power in Europe. This collection includes examples of Guevara's shorter writings on matters of state, network with dignitaries, and govern family affairs. It provides a perspective on the possibilities for women in the public sphere in Spain.
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Sonnets For Michelangelo Â€“ A Bilingual Edition

by Abigail Brundin e Vittoria Colonna

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 The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time.
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