After reading Baldesar Castigilione's The Book of the Courtier and Sir Phillip Sydney's The Old Arcadia, the feeling of whether women had a Renaissance or not, did not seem relevant. Although some of the statements made against women were outrageous (i.e"...When a woman is born it is ...

Society has females and males alike typecasted into roles which have basic characteristics that are the reverse of each other. Although this has begun to change over the past thirty years, typically the man was seen as superior to the female. This superior image is one that today, is slowly on its w...