Refiguring Woman : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
1991, First Edition. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420742
ISBN: 0801425387
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.
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