Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance

Copertina anteriore
Marilyn Migiel, Juliana Schiesari
Cornell University Press, 1991 - 285 pagine
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.
 

Sommario

THE HERMENEUTICS OF GENDER
7
SelfPresentation by Young Women
9
Other Mouth
19
Patriarchal Ideology in the Renaissance Iconography
35
The Visual Language of Gender in SixteenthCentury
71
A Feminist Use of Paleography
114
Motherhood Gender
133
Funerals and the Politics of Gender in Early
155
in Late Renaissance Rome
169
Economy Woman and Renaissance Discourse
192
A Feminist Perspective
211
Torquato Tasso
233
Ovids Philomela in Tullia
263
Contributors
279
Copyright

Parole e frasi comuni

Informazioni bibliografiche