Querelle des femmes (debate about women)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
De claris mulieribus (Of Famous Women)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
The Wyf of Bath, The Canterbury Tales
Christine de Pizan (1364-1430)
The Book of the City of Ladies (illustration, excerpt)
Woman Controversy (link to overview and writers below)
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535)
De nobilitate et praecellentia feominei sexus (On the Nobility and Preeminence of Women)Jane Anger
Jane Anger, her Protection for Women to defend them against the Scandalous Reports of a Late Surfeiting Lover . . . . (1589)Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, God, King of the Jews) (1611)Joseph Swetnam
The Arraignment of Lewde, Idle, froward, and unconstant women . . . . (1615)Esther Sowernam
Esther Hath Hanged Haman; or, An Answer to a Lewd Pamphlet Entitled The Arraignment of Women (1617)Constantia Munda
The Worming of a Mad Dog; or, . . . a sharp Redargution of the Baiter of Women (1617)Other Protofeminists
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (?1648-1695)
La Respuesta (The Answer)
Mary
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
