Refiguring Woman : : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance / / ed. by Juliana Schiesari, Marilyn Migiel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Chojnacki, Stanley,; Ciletti, Elena,; Cohen, Elizabeth S.,; Freccero, Carla,; Jed, Stephanie H.,; Jones, Ann Rosalind,; Lazzaro, Claudia,; Migiel, Marilyn,; Schiesan, Juliana,; Schiesari, Juliana,; Spackman, Barbara,; Strocchia, Sharon T.,
• HerausgeberIn: Migiel, Marilyn,; Schiesari, Juliana,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 35 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. THE HERMENEUTICS OF GENDER -- 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 -- II. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER -- “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 -- III. WOMAN AND THE CANON -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index