Women In European Society

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Discusses the condition of women from the 16th to 18th centuries. Changes in attitudes toward women. Ideals of female behavior and real-world women. Impact of changing intellectual currents in the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment periods. Womens experience in Europe's transition from the medieval to Renaissance culture.

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"This research explores the fluctuating condition of women in European society from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The research examines changes in attitudes toward women, notably in the ways that ideals of female behavior and the consequences of such ideals for real-world women shifted based on changing intellectual currents in the Renaissance (ca. 1350-1550), the Reformation (ca. 1520-1600), and the Enlightenment (ca. 1680-1780).

Ideals of female behavior and essence have long preoccupied Western commentators--most of whom were and are male. But feminist critique of the commentators' texts has resulted in the identification of dramatic and wholesale transitions of attitudes toward women that decisively influenced women's experience of the world, in particular in the generations of ..."

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