The Birth of Feminism：Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England By Sarah Gwyneth Ross (2009)；Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994)

1992年在哈佛大學出版社的書店買廉價出版品 (有點小缺有瑕的)，印象很深刻。
今天買的書約打3折，經銷商拋出的：

集體女性傳記的試驗：1400年到1680年間，在英國與義大利崛起的19位女性之"合傳"。

The Birth of Feminism

Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England

Sarah Gwyneth Ross

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674034549

In this illuminating work, surveying 300 years and two nations, Sarah Gwyneth Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of “woman” in the West.

An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in the world of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival material—wills, letters, and manuscript compositions, some presented here for the first time—and on printed writings, Ross gives us an unprecedented sense of educated early modern women’s lives.

Sponsored and often educated by their learned fathers and other male relatives within a model that Ross terms “the intellectual family,” female authors publicized their works within the safety of family networks. These women, including Christine de Pizan, Laura Cereta, Margaret More Roper, Lucrezia Marinella, and Bathsua Makin, did not argue for women’s political equality, but they represented and often advocated women’s intellectual equality. Ross demonstrates that because of their education, these women had a renaissance during the Renaissance, and that in so doing they laid the foundation for the emancipation of womankind.

Contents

• Note on the Texts
• Introduction
• I: The Household Academy, 1400–1580
  
  • 1. Her Father’s Daughter
  • 2. Household Academies in Venice and London
  • 3. The Biographical Tradition
  • 4. Models of Feminist Argument
• II: The Household Salon, 1580–1680
  
  • 5. Learned Wives and Mothers in Italy
  • 6. Collaborative Marriages in Britain
  • 7. Discourses of Equality and Rights
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index

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Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers 1st ed Edition

by Susan Cahill (Editor)

Representing fifty distinguished American women writers, this collection of autobiographical narratives reflects the diverse intersections of race, class, religion, and sexual identity as they have been experienced in every region of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. The selections showcase the common experiences of women writers as children, daughters, wives, lovers, mothers, artists, travelers, and intellectuals; together they form a moving cultural history of the United States form a moving cultural history of the United States from a female perspective. Among the different voices of these accomplished prose stylists, one hears a common note of humor and irreverence, and the ring of conviction and confidence that comes from a well-forged identity.

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Perennial; 1st ed edition (April 1994)
• Language: English