Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521558190 ISBN 13: 9780521558198

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

How did the new developments of the Renaissance affect the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves? Addressing a wide range of issues across Renaissance culture--humanism, technology, science, anatomy, literacy, theater, domesticity, colonialism, and sex--this collection of essays attempts to answer that question. In doing so, the authors discover that the female subject of the Renaissance shares a surprising amount of conceptual territory with her postmodern counterpart.

About this title

Book Description:

How did the new developments of the Renaissance affect the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves? Addressing a wide range of issues across Renaissance culture, this collection of essays attempts to answer that question.

From the Back Cover:

How did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this question by analyzing a wide spectrum of cultural concerns--humanism, technology, science, law, anatomy, literacy, domesticity, colonialism, erotic practices, and the theater--in order to delineate the history of subjectivity and its relationship with the postmodern fragmented subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521558190
• ISBN 13: 9780521558198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Traub Valerie, Kaplan M. Lindsay, Callaghan Dympna