Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance

Edited by Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari

ISBN 10: 0801425387 / ISBN 13: 9780801425387

Published by NCROL, Ithaca and London, 1991

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An insightful collection of scholarly essays exploring the roles, representation, and experiences of women in Renaissance Italy. Refiguring Woman brings together leading historians, literary scholars, and art historians to examine how gender shaped social, political, religious, and cultural life during one of Europe's most influential historical periods.
Through interdisciplinary research, the contributors reassess traditional interpretations of the Italian Renaissance, highlighting women's participation as patrons, artists, writers, intellectuals, and members of both elite and everyday society. The volume also investigates how women were represented in Renaissance art and literature, offering fresh perspectives on identity, power, education, family, and cultural ideals.
An important contribution to Renaissance studies and gender history, this volume is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and collectors interested in Italian history, women's studies, art history, literary criticism, and early modern Europe.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1784280944140

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
• Publisher: NCROL, Ithaca and London
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801425387
• ISBN 13: 9780801425387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 16.51W x 24.77H x 1.91D centimeters 16.51 centimeters width by 24.77 centimeters height by 1.91 centimeters depth
• Weight: 612 grams

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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.