Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Discourses of misogyny -- THE RULE OF RHETORIC -- THE QUERELLE DES FEMMES: RHETORIC OR REALITY? -- ANTIFEMINISM AND MARRIAGE IN RABELAIS'S TIERS LIVRE -- CHAPTER 2 Irony and the sexual other -- JEANNE FLORE AND EROTIC DESIRE: FEMINISM OR MALE FANTASY? -- READING AND WRITING IN THE TENTH STORY OF THE HEPTAMERON -- CHAPTER 3 Anonymity and the poetics of regendering -- THE "I" AS ANOTHER -- PERNETTE DU GUILLET'S PLATONISM -- CHAPTER 4 The women in Montaigne's life -- MONTAIGNE'S WOMEN -- MARIE DE GOURNAY'S MONTAIGNE -- CHAPTER 5 Sexual marginality -- READING HOMOSEXUALITY -- CROSS-DRESSING -- THE ANDROGYNE MYTH -- BRANTÔME, MEDICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE MAKINGS OF PORNOGRAPHY -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 DISCOURSES OF MISOGYNY -- 2 IRONY AND THE SEXUAL OTHER -- 3 ANONYMITY AND THE POETICS OF REGENDERING -- 4 THE WOMEN IN MONTAIGNE'S LIFE -- 5 SEXUAL MARGINALITY -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY WORKS -- SECONDARY WORKS -- Index.
This book examines the significance of rhetoric and print culture in French Renaissance writing about women.
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