03207nam 2200673 a 450 991082012430332120200520144314.01-281-12527-X97866111252710-226-01060-010.7208/9780226010601(CKB)1000000000408737(EBL)408227(OCoLC)476228065(SSID)ssj0000135865(PQKBManifestationID)11132418(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135865(PQKBWorkID)10064791(PQKB)11728862(MiAaPQ)EBC408227(DE-B1597)535751(OCoLC)781253328(DE-B1597)9780226010601(Au-PeEL)EBL408227(CaPaEBR)ebr10209950(CaONFJC)MIL112527(EXLCZ)99100000000040873719960126d1996 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrDeclamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex /Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ; translated and edited with an introduction by Albert Rabil, Jr1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press19961 online resource (143 p.)Other voice in early modern EuropeDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-01059-7 0-226-01058-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Editors' Introduction to the Series --Foreword --Note on the Text --Agrippa and the Feminist Tradition --Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex --Index of Biblical References --General IndexOriginally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based not on sex but on social conditioning, education, and the prejudices of their more powerful oppressors. His declamation, disseminated through the printing press, illustrated the power of that new medium, soon to be used to generate a larger reformation of religion.Other voice in early modern Europe.WomenEarly works to 1800FeminismEarly works to 1800WomenFeminism305.4Agrippa von Nettesheim Heinrich Cornelius1486?-1535.489574Rabil Albert169959MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820124303321Declamation on the nobility and preeminence of the female sex3993547UNINA