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Marguerite de Navarre and the Querelle des femmes
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 2017
- pp. 1-7
- 10.1353/esp.2017.0024
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The articles in this special issue honor Régine Reynolds-Cornell, professor emerita of French at Agnes Scott College, whose research focused on women writers in the Renaissance, especially Marguerite de Navarre. This introduction outlines Reynolds-Cornell’s and these authors’ contributions to scholarship on Marguerite’s role in the Querelle des femmes, an early modern debate on the status of women. Although Marguerite does not mount a clear-cut defense of women in her works, she nonetheless subtly questions prevailing social perceptions through her strong female characters, offers fresh perspectives on long-enduring misogynistic discourses, and depicts the challenges for real women in sixteenth-century France.