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The Polemics of Rachel Speght

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Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unapologetically and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. Her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617), is both a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's popular treatise attacking women and also a serious effort to stake women's claim to prevailing Protestant discourse of biblical exegesis, forcing it to yield a more expansive and more suitable concept of women's nature and role. Her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612), includes a long memento mori mediation and an allegorical dream vision that recounts her own rapturous encounter with learning. Both works vigorously defend women's education and the encouragement of women's talent.
Release date Australia
December 5th, 1996
Author
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Edited by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Pages
144
Dimensions
145x217x16
ISBN-13
9780195086140
Product ID
2198148

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