The Self-Fashioning of Renaissance Women

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This paper examines the subject of Renaissance women, making use of the literary works of Christine de Pizan and St Teresa de Avila. In this article, the writer discusses that the notion of the fashioning of a feminine self in keeping with the Renaissance ways of thought, may be found in the wroks of de Pizan and de Avila.

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"The thesis that the Renaissance developed a new sense of history, resulting in significant changes in writing about past and present lives, assumes particular meaning in application to the roles of biography and autobiography in the works of Christine de Pizan and St. Teresa de Avila. This essay will argue, with respect to the celebratory presentation of female identity in the past and present in the works of de Pizan and de Avila, that their works share a Renaissance preoccupation with the fashioning of a feminine self that may be distinguished from the sexist construction of femininity by other writers of the late medieval and early modern periods."

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