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In historiography, querelle des femmes ("dispute of women"), indicates an early-modern debate on the nature of women. This literary genre developed in Italian and French early humanist circles and was led by numerous women scholars, who wrote in Latin and vernacular to counter dominant misogynistic literature.
T he French phrase querelle des femmes, meaning "the woman question," refers to a literary debate about the nature and status of women. This debate began around 1500 and continued beyond the end of the Renaissance. The first Renaissance figure to raise the issue of women's status was the philosopher Heinrich Agrippa of Nettesheim.
Joan Kelly explores the 400-year-old tradition of women thinking about and challenging sexual politics in European society before the French Revolution. She traces the origins and evolution of the querelle des femmes, a debate that emerged from Christine de Pisan's defense of women in the fifteenth century.
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Nov 29, 2019 · The querelle des femmes was a long-running discussion in Europe from the medieval to the early modern period about the nature and worth of women. It involved pro- and anti-woman arguments on various topics, such as the equality or superiority of the sexes, the education and status of women, and the representation of women in art and literature.
The querelle des femmes was a debate about the nature and worth of women that unfolded in Europe from the medieval to the early modern period (c. 1400–1700). Contributions to the querelle appeared in a number of languages and in various literary forms, including philosophical treatises, essays, letters, dialogues, plays, and works of poetry.
This chapter explores how female-voiced defences of women in the Swetnam controversy of 1615–1617 exploited the gendered discourses of court scandal to criticize the monarchs Elizabeth I and James I. It traces the history of the querelle des femmes debate and its influence on English political culture.
Nov 3, 2000 · While the so-called querelle des femmes had been going on for centuries, the seventeenth century marked a turning point in the debate over the status of women as better or worse than men in virtue of their form or soul. (See Kelly 1988.)
