#jane anger

[cosmogyros]

To all Women in generall, and gentle Reader whatsoever. FIE on the falshoode of men, whose minds goe oft a madding, & whose tongues can not so soone bee wagging, but straight they fal a railing. Was there ever any so abused, so slaundered, so railed upon, or so wickedly handeled undeservedly, as are we women? Will the Gods permit it, the Goddesses stay theyr punishing judgments, and we ourselves not pursue their undoinges for such divelish practises? O Paules steeple and Charing Crosse. A halter hold al such persons. Let the streames of the channels in London streates run so swiftly, as they may be able alone to carrie them from that sanctuarie. Let the stones be as Ice, the soales of their shooes as Glasse, the waies steep like Ætna, & every blast a Whyrl-wind puffed out of Boreas his long throat, that these may hasten their passage to the Devils haven. Shal Surfeiters raile on our kindnes, you stand stil & say nought, and shall not Anger stretch the vaines of her braines, the stringes of her fingers, and the listes of her modestie, to answere their Surfeitings? Yes truely. And herein I conjure all you to aide and assist me in defence of my willingnes, which shall make me rest at your commaundes. Fare you well.

— Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women (published 1589)

[valkyries-things]

JANE ANGER // AUTHOR

“She was an English author of the sixteenth century and the first woman to publish a full-length defence of her sex in English. The title of her defense, Jane Anger Her Protection For Women was published in 1589. In the late sixteenth century, it was rare for women to write and publish on secular, or non-religious themes. It was also rare for women to argue against male supremacy.”

[cosmogyros]

The desire that every man hath to shewe his true vaine in writing is unspeakable, and their mindes are so caried away with the manner, as no care at all is had of the matter: they run so into Rethorick, as often times they overrun the boundes of their own wits, and goe they knowe not whether.

— Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women (published 1589)

[haggishlyhagging]

… [A] prolonged pamphlet debate concerning women and following the earlier tradition of the querelle des femmes in France took place in England. In both countries the debate was started by the publication of an anti-feminist pamphlet, which summarized all the arguments against women in medieval and patristic literature, which in turn led to a spirited defense of women on the part of male and female pamphleteers. In both countries the anti-feminist pamphlets enjoyed greater popularity and were much more frequently reprinted than the feminist answers.

In England the earliest of the female pamphleteers, one Jane Anger, responded to a misogynist pamphlet in a woman-centered defense she called Her protection for women . . . Anger reiterated the older interpretation of the Creation story but gave it a particular gloss:

The creation of man and woman at the first, he being formed In principio of dross and filthy clay, did so remain until God saw that in him his workmanship was good, and therefore by the transformation of the dust which was loathsome unto flesh it became purified. Then lacking a help for him, God, making woman of man's flesh that she might be purer than he, doth evidently show how far we women are more excellent than men. Our bodies are fruitful, whereby the world increaseth, and our care wonderful, by which man is preserved. From woman sprang man's salvation. A woman was the first that believed, and a woman likewise the first that repented of sin.

Anger's extension of the argument for Eve's superiority through the act of creation to the results of the Fall—namely, that it is Eve to whom the blessings of procreation are given after the Fall—will be much used by other female Bible commentators in later periods without their being aware of Anger's earlier argument. It appears to be original with her in this pamphlet. Anger continued that argument in a homely, common-sense manner, when she listed all the services women render to men in rather graphic detail. "They are comforted by our means," she asserted. Women nourish men and keep them clean and healthy. "Without our care they lie in their beds as dogs in litter and go like lousy mackerel swimming in the heat of summer." As others before and after her, Anger listed virtuous women from Antiquity and from the Bible in support of her assertions.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness

[shannonscommonplace]

Their slanderous tongues are so short, and the time wherein they have lavished out their words freely hath been so long, that they know we cannot catch hold of them to pull them out and they think we will not write to reprove their lying lips, which conceits have already made them cocks and would (should they not be cravened) make themselves among themselves be thought to be of the game

Jane Anger

[gabrielerner]

Las escritoras feministas del siglo XVI

Las escritoras feministas del siglo XVI

Los primeros trabajos literarios escritos por mujeres se publicaron a partir del siglo XVI. Pero a partir del año 1600, siglo XVII, comienza un auge significativo en la impresión de libros escritos por y para mujeres.

A fines del siglo XVI, en Inglaterra, Francia, España, Alemania y otros países europeos, se produjeron guerras civiles o revoluciones internas. Avanzaron ideas y medidas liberales.…

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[notsoluckyho]

We are contrary to men because they are contrary to that which is good...

Our behaviors alter daily because men’s virtues decay hourly.

[notsoluckyho]

We are the grief of man, in that we take all the grief from man