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Misogynist literature in English

• definition: "misogyny"; scope of the literature: sometimes cautionary, sometimes didactic, sometimes hate literature
• history: Church writings; secular bawdy tradition; chronological recounting
• responses, rebuttals, and defences
• importance of this literature as a genre; significance in the history of women's writing
• lists of texts

Resources

• The Woman Controversy: The Debate About the Nature of Womankind in Early Modern England
• Edward Gosynhill; Joseph Swetnam