![]() This review should serve as a framework for the understanding of the texts published in the series "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe." Introductions specific to each text and author follow this essay in all the volumes of the series.Įmbedded in the philosophical and medical theories of the ancient Greeks were perceptions of the female as inferior to the male in both mind and body. The following pages describe the misogynistic tradition inherited by early modern Europeans, and the new tradition which the "other voice" called into being to challenge reigning assumptions. Misogyny inherited from these traditions pervaded the intellectual, medical, legal, religious, and social systems that developed during the European Middle Ages. The "other voice" emerged against the backdrop of a three-thousandyear history of misogyny-the hatred of women-rooted in the civilizations related to Western culture: Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Christian. ![]() Coincident with a general reshaping of European culture in the period 1300 to 1700 (called the Renaissance or early modern period), questions of female equality and opportunity ere raised that still resound and are still unresolved. ![]() Theirs is the" other voice," in contradistinction to the "first voice," the voice of the educated men who created Western culture. ![]() These recent achievements have their origins in things women (and some male supporters) said for the first time about six hundred years ago. Issues vital to women are on the public agenda: equal pay, child care, domestic abuse, breast cancer research, and curricular revision with an eye to the inclusion of women. Most enjoy access to education, reproductive rights, and autonomy in financial affairs. N western Europe and the United States women are nearing equality in the professions, in business, and in politics. 4-dc21 CIP § The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of theĪmerican National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence for Printed Library Materials, ANSI 239.48-1992.įranco) Familiar Letters Various People 23 (The other voice in early modern Europe) Includes bibliographical references and index. Poems and selected letters / Veronica Franco edited and translated by Ann Rosalind J ones and Margaret F. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Franco, Veronica, 1546-1591. This translation was supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the Mellon Foundation. The Italian text of Franco's poetry is reproduced from Rime) by Veronica Franco, edited by Stefano Bianchi (Milan: Gruppo Ugo Mursia, 1995) with the permission of the publisher. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1998 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. She is the author of The Honest Courtesan: VeronicaFranco)Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice)published by the University of Chicago Press. Margaret F Rosentbal is associate professor of Italian at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Currency 0/ Eros: WOJ1zen)s Love Lyric in Europe) 1540-1620. Ro sen tb alĪnn Rosalind Jones is Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor of Comparative Literature at Smith College. Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle EDITEDīy Ann Ro sa lin d Jones and Margaret F. Florentine Drama for Convent and Festival EDITED ANNA
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