Refiguring Woman : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance

Migiel, Marilyn (1954-); Schiesari, Juliana [editors]

ISBN 10: 0801425387 / ISBN 13: 9780801425387

Published by Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1991

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Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction -- Inter musam et ursam moritur: Folengo and the Gaping "Other" Mouth -- Patriarchal Ideology in the Renaissance Iconography of Judith -- The Visual Language of Gender in Sixteenth-Century Garden Sculpture -- Chastity on the Page: A Feminist Use of Paleography -- "The Most Serious Duty": Motherhood, Gender, and Patrician Culture in Renaissance Venice -- Funerals and the Politics of Gender in Early Renaissance Florence -- No Longer Virgins: Self-Presentation by Young Women in Late Renaissance Rome -- Economy, Woman, and Renaissance Discourse -- The Dignity of Man: A Feminist Perspective -- The Gendering of Melancholia: Torquato Tasso and Isabella di Morra -- New Songs for the Swallow: Ovid's Philomela in Tullia d'Aragona and Gaspara Stampa. Subjects; Gender Studies. West European History. Sex role Italy History Congresses. Women Italy History Renaissance, 1450-1600 Congresses. Patriarchy Italy History Congresses. Italian literature 16th century History and criticism Congresses. European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600 Gender aspects. Art, Renaissance Italy. Women in art. Feminism and art. Sculpture Italy. 3 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refiguring Woman : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
• Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801425387
• ISBN 13: 9780801425387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 3 kilograms

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Synopsis

Refiguring Woman reassesses the significance of gender in what has been considered the bastion of gender-neutral humanist thought, the Italian Renaissance. It brings together eleven new essays that investigate key topics concerning the hermeneutics and political economy of gender and the relationship between gender and the Renaissance canon. Taken together, they call into question a host of assumptions about the period, revealing the implicit and explicit misogyny underlying many Renaissance social and discursive practices.