Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex

by Cornelius Agrippa and Nicolas Gueudeville

Book Overview

Originally 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226010597
• ISBN13: 9780226010595
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"