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Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume one includes texts from 1521 through to 1615.

Contents: Preface by the General Editors
Introductory Note
Christine de Pisan, Title page, Frontispiece, Part I (sigs. Aa2-Ff2) and Part 3 (sigs. Z2v-Z4v) in The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, Part 1 (trans Anslay, 1521)
Thomas Elyot, The Defence of Good Women (1540)
Edward Gosynhyll, The Scholehouse of women (1541?)
The prayse of all women called Mulieru[m] Pean (1542)
Robert Burdet or Robert Vaughan, A dyalogue defensyue for women (1542), A Letter sent by the Maydens of London (1567)
C. Pyrrye, The Praise and Dispraise of Women (1569)
Jane Anger, Iane Anger her Protection for Women (1588)
Nicholas Breton, The Praise of vertuous Ladies, (sigs. Q4-Tv) in The Wil of Wit (1597)
I.G., An apologie for Women-kinde (1605)
Aemilia Lanyer, Title page and 'To the Vertvovs Reader' (sigs. f3-f3v) in SalveE Devs Rex IvdA|orum(1611
STC 15227)
Joseph Swetnam, The Araignment of lewd, idle, froward and vnconstant Women (1615).

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. At least 36 texts exclusively devoted to attacking and/or defending women were published in the hundred years between 1540 and 1640. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume two includes texts from 1616 through to 1640.

Contents: Preface by the General Editors
Introductory Note
Daniel Tuvill, Title page, Proem (1-5), Chapter 1 (5-12), Chapter 8 (87-99) and Epilogue (137-62) in Asylum Veneris, orA Sanctvary for Ladies (1616)
Rachel Speght, A Mouzell for Melastomvs (1617)
Ester Sowernam, Ester hath hang'd Haman (1617)
Constantia Munda, The Worming of a madde Dog (1617), Hic Mvlier (1620), HA|c Vir (1620)
John Donne, Title page (A2r and '[Paradox] VI. That it is possible to find some vertue in some Women' (sigs C3v-C4v) in Ivvenilia (1633)
John Taylor, A Iuniper Lecture (1639), The Womens sharpe revenge (1640).

The querelle des femmes was a debate over the condition of women in society lasting four centuries and characteristically involved charges against female vice, folly, corruption, incontinence and lasciviousness, countered by pro-women defences and lists of exemplary women. The texts in these two volumes range from broadside parliamentary petitions to verse satire, from sermons to philosophical essays, from political diatribes to marital advice. The defences all respond to attacks on women, and although none argues for women's citizenship or social equality, many claim an original or spiritual equality, and blame custom and male corruption for female subjection. The volumes are arranged into five sections covering Politics, Preaching and Silence, Sexuality, Marriage and Two Contrapuntal Defences.

Preface by the General Editors
Introductory note
Politics: Henry Neville, The ladies, a second time, assembled in Parliament (1647)
The humble petition of divers wel-affected women... ([May 5] 1649)
[?Katherine Chidley], The humble representation of divers afflicted women... ([July 25] 1653)
Preaching And Silence: A discoverie of six women preachers (1641)
George Fox, The woman learning in silence (1656)
Margaret Fell Fox, Womens speaking justified (1666)
Sexuality: Robert Gould, Love given o're (1682/3)
Sarah Fyge Egerton, The female advocate (1687)
Richard Ames, Sylvia's revenge (1688)
Appendix: Susanna Jesserson, A bargain for bachelors (1675)
Marriage: John Sprint, The bride-woman's counselor (1700)
'Eugenia', The female Advocate (1700)
Mary Astell, Some reflections upon marriage (1700)
'Preface' from Reflections upon marriage (3rd ed., 1706)
Mary Chudleigh, The ladies defence (1701).

The querelle des femmes was a debate over the condition of women in society lasting four centuries and characteristically involved charges against female vice, folly, corruption, incontinence and lasciviousness, countered by pro-women defences and lists of exemplary women. The texts in these two volumes range from broadside parliamentary petitions to verse satire, from sermons to philosophical essays, from political diatribes to marital advice. The defences all respond to attacks on women, and although none argues for women's citizenship or social equality, many claim an original or spiritual equality, and blame custom and male corruption for female subjection. The volumes are arranged into five sections covering Politics, Preaching and Silence, Sexuality, Marriage and Two Contrapuntal Defences.

Contents: Preface by the General Edtors
Introductory note
Two Contrapuntal Defences: A dialogue concerning women, William Walsh (1691)
An essay in defence of the female sex, [?Judith Drake](1696).

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