| Edition |
Pbk. ed. |
| Description |
xxxi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Women in culture and society |
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Women in culture and society.
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| Note |
A Chicago Original Paperback. |
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Originally published 1986. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-412) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. The politics of patriatrchy : theory and practice -- Fatherly authority : the politics of Stuart family images / Jonathan Goldberg -- The absent mother in King Lear / Coppélia Kahn -- Prospero's wife / Stephen Orgel -- A midsummer night's dream and the shaping fantasies of Elizabethan culture : gender, power, form / Louis A. Montrose -- Puritanism and Maenadism in A mask / Richard Halpern -- Dalila's house : Samson agonistes and the sexual division of labor / John Guillory -- Patriarchal territiories : the body enclosed / Peter Stallybrass -- Part 2. The rhetorics of marginalization : consequences of patriarchy -- The other and the same : the image of the hermaphrodite in Rabelais / Carla Freccero -- Usurpation, seduction, and the problematics of the proper : a "deconstructive," "feminist" rereading of the seduction of Richard and Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III / Marguerite Waller -- The beauty of woman : problems in the rhetoric of Renaissance portraiture / Elizabeth Cropper -- Spinsters and seamstresses : women in cloth and clothing production / Merry E. Wiesner -- A woman's place was in the home : women's work in Renaissance Tuscany / Judith C. Brown -- Part 3. The works of women : some exceptions to the rule of patriarchy -- Catherine de' Medici as Artemisia : figuring the powerful widow / Sheila Ffoliott -- Feminism and the humanists : the case for Sir Thomas Elyot's Defense of good women / Constance Jordan -- Singing unsung heroines : androgynous discourse in Book 3 of The faerie queen / Lauren Silberman -- Stella's wit : Penelope Rich as reader of Sidney's sonnets / Clark Hulse -- Gender vs. sex difference in Louise Lab̌'s grammar of love / François Rigolot -- City women and their audiences : Louise Labé and Veronica Franko / Ann Rosalind Jones. |
| Summary |
Juxtaposing the insights of feminism with those of marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, this unique collection creates new common ground for women's studies and Renaissance studies. An outstanding array of scholars--literary critics, art critics, and historians--reexamines the role of women and their relations with men during the Renaissance. In the process, the contributors enrich the emerging languages of and about women, gender, and sexual difference. Throughout, the essays focus on the structures of Renaissance patriarchy that organized power relations both in the state and in the family. They explore the major conequences of patriarchy for women--their marginalization and lack of identity and power--and the ways in which individual women or groups of women broke, or in some cases deliberately circumvented, the rules that defined them as a secondary sex. Topics covered include representations of women in literature and art, the actual work done by women both inside and outside of the home, and the writings of women themselves. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies that "marginalized" historical and fictional women, these essays counter scholarly and critical traditions that continue to exhibit patriarchal biases. -- Back cover. |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Women -- Europe -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Congresses.
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Patriarchy -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Sex role in literature -- Congresses.
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European literature -- Renaissance.
(OCoLC)fst01710967
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Patriarchy. (OCoLC)fst01055082
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
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Women -- Renaissance.
(OCoLC)fst01906677
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Geschlechterrolle (DE-588)4071776-8
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Europa (DE-588)1114854468
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Kongress (DE-588)4130470-6
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1450-1600.
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1450 - 1600
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| Genre/Form |
Kongress -- New Haven (Conn.) -- 1982.
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Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Konferenzschrift -- 1982 -- New Haven Conn.
(DE-588)1071861417
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
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Quilligan, Maureen, 1944-
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Vickers, Nancy J.
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| Added Title |
Discourses of sexual difference in early modern Europe |
| ISBN |
0226243141 (pbk.) |
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9780226243146 (pbk.) |
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0226243133 |
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9780226243139 |
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