Refiguring Woman : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Published by Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1991
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- Hardcover
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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. 1 Kg. …
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- Title
- Refiguring Woman : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
- Author
- Migiel, Marilyn (1954-); Schiesari, Juliana [editors]
- Publisher
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
- Publication year
- 1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801425387
- ISBN 13
- 9780801425387
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
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