Name: Women on the Margins
ISBN: 9780674955202

Natalie Zemon Davis

Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus Natalie Zemon Davis

Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.

Three Seventeenth-century Lives

Women on the Margins

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity. Equally remarkable though very different, the three women profiled here--one a Jewish merchant and mother of twelve, one a Catholic mystic visionary, and one a Protestant painter and naturalist--left behind memoirs and writings that make for spellbinding tales. 41 halftones. 400 pp .

also read this one for my 'women in history' course and it was good

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3.25 stars

also read this one for my 'women in history' course and it was good

Women on the Margins Three Seventeenth-century Lives

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