adityapareshshah wrote:
"Jacob Burckhardt’s view that Renaissance European women “stood on a footing of perfect equality” with Renaissance men has been repeatedly cited by feminist scholars as a prelude to their presentation of rich historical evidence of women’s inequality."
This sentence indicates that JB's views were optimistic regarding the status of women in Renaissance period. Then how come many feminist scholars used the view of JB to support their claim regarding the inequality faced by women
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