The Androgyne in Early Modern France

Marian Rothstein is Professor Emerita of French at Carthage College, USA. She is the author of Reading in the Renaissance: Amadis de Gaule and the Lessons of Memory and editor of Charting Change in Renaissance French Thought and Culture.

Introduction 1. The Sources of the Androgyne 2. On Functional Gender 3. Picturing the Androgyne 4. The Literary Androgyne 5. On Famous Women and the Androgyne 6. The Political Androgyne Conclusion