Refiguring Woman : : Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance / / ed. by Juliana Schiesari, Marilyn Migiel.
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 relationshi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 35 halftones |
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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