VIC343Y: Sex and Gender in the Renaissance
Professor Konrad Eisenbichler
March 19th, 2015
“For if the imagination does have any power in such matters, in girls it dwells so constantly and so forcefully on sex that it can […] more easily make that male organ into a part of their bodies.” (Michel de Montaigne)
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Michel de Montaigne is one of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance era. Montaigne was born on February 28th, 1533 in Guyenne, France, and died at the age of fifty-nine on September 13th, 1592 in the city of his birthplace, Guyenne. Throughout his career working as a philosopher, Montaigne’s writing developed into something more personal. …show more content…
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