Querelle des femmes titles

Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus or Concerning Famous Women (1360-74)



Martin Lefranc, Le Champion des dames (1442)



Cornelius Agrippa, De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (1529, composed 1509)

Gratien du Pont (1534)

Thomas Elyot, The Defense of Good Women (1545)

François de Billon (1553)

Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron (1558)

Anthony Gibson, a Woman's Woorth, defended against all the Men in the World, proving them to be more Perfect, Excellent, and Absolute in all Vertuous Actions than any Man of what Qualitie soever, Interlarded with Poetry (1559)

Jean de Marconville (1564)

Philippe Desportes, Stances du mariage (1571)

Marie de Romieu, Bref discours de l'excellence de la femme (158?)

Thomas Nashe. An Almon for a parrot. London 1590.

Giuseppe Passi, Dei donneschi difetti (1599)

Moderata Fonte, Il Merito delle Donne or The Worth of Women (1592)

Lucrezia Marinella, The Nobility and Excellence of Women (1600)

Alexis Trousset, alias Jacques Olivier, Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes (1617)

Marie de Gournay, Égalité des hommes et des femmes (1622)

Anna Maria van Schurmann, On the capacity of the female mind for learning. (1640)

Jacquette Guillaume, Les Dames Illustres; où par bonnes et fortes Raisons il se prouve que le Sexe Feminin surpasse en toute Sorte de Genre le Sexe Masculin; (1665)

Francois Poulain de la Barre, (1675)

Sophia, Woman not inferior to man: or, a short and modest vindication of the natural right of the fairer sex to a perfect equality of power, dignity and esteem, with men, London 1739.


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