Images of women in technical books from the English Renaissance

Technical books written for women in the English Renaissance are shown to provide a rich source for furthering knowledge of the literacy of women, particularly middle-class women, and the roles these women assumed. These show that Renaissance women assumed active roles, were generally as literate as men, and needed books to help them execute major responsibilities in home medical care, home and estate management, animal husbandry, cooking, and gardening. They also show that women's literacy increased rapidly by the end of the Renaissance and that the increase in the demand for books was most certainly due in part to demands by women for technical and other forms of how-to books. The effectiveness with which Renaissance technical writers adapted content and style for women readers is cited as a reminder to the modern technical writer of the value of gender considerations in designing content and style. >

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• The Reproduction of Mothering

  Nancy J Chodorow, Nancy Chodorow et al.•Reproduction of Mothering•1978

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• Women's ways of knowing

  Mary Field Belenky•Women's ways of knowing•1988

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• Tudor Women

  Kathleen E Mccrone•Sixteenth Century Journal•1977

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• In a Different Voice

  Miriam M Johnson, Carol Gilligan•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1983

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• Working life of women in the seventeenth Century

  Open Access•Lina Gorenstein Ferreira Da Silva•Revista de História•1991

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• The Elizabethan Woman

  Elisabeth Anthony Dexter, Carroll Camden•The William and Mary Quarterly•1953

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• The London Silkwomen of the Fifteenth Century

  Open Access•Marian K Dale•The Economic History Review•1933

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• Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century

  Gerald L Geison, Charles Webster•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1982

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• Language and woman's place

  Open Access•Robin Lakoff, Robin Tolmach Lakoff•Language in Society•1973

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• The Reproduction of Mothering

  Jean Giles-Sims, Nancy J Chodorow et al.•Journal of Marriage and the Family•1979

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• The Written Word

  Brian Street, B V Street et al.•Man•1988

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