Women of the Renaissance, The: A Study of Feminism.
[Anthologies]. de Maulde, R. la Clavière. The Women of the Renaissance: A Study of Feminism. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1905.
8vo.; frontispiece portrait; pages faintly darkened; inner hinge tender; green cloth, stamped in gilt; lightly used; previous owner’s signature on front endpaper.
Second edition. An encyclopedic 500+-page work about the status of women artists of the Renaissance, as contrasted with the status of women artists of contemporary times. One of the first serious works of the century to argue strongly for women’s full humanity; surely one of the first books ever to embrace the word “feminist” as a socio-political term.
De Maulde writes in the preamble:
The woman question—what is more absorbing! What do women want? What do they demand? They have been shamefully neglected. To judge by the [Napoleonic] code, there never were such beings on earth. But the code has hallowed inequities. The education of women is pitiable. They ought to know everything—and are taught nothing. They are deficient in intelligence—they are too intelligent. They ought to have their separate careers, their separate circles, their independence—to be the equals of their husbands, to be men and yet remain women. They ought to have votes—that, it appears, forms one element of happiness.
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