Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 1-41.
Introduction
1. What sparked interest in women's history? What questions about women have historians asked? What
general conclusions have historians drawn from their research?
Chapter 1
2. What was the legacy to early modern Europe of the notions about women from Greek philosophy, Judaism, and Christianity?
3. What was the Renaissance debate about women? What problem was at issue, and what were the conflicting positions? In what form(s) did the debate take place?
4. In the Reformation era, were Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish concepts of women essentially the same, or were they different? How were they the same or different?
5. Why did the Scientific Revolution do little "to challenge exisiting ideas of the inferiority of women" (33)?
6. In what ways did laws affect women? What principles informed these laws?
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