Refiguring Woman
Subtitle: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
Contributors: Marilyn Migiel (Editor); Juliana Schiesari (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801497711
Subjects: Feminism; Social history; Renaissance, 1450-1600; History; Gender Studies; Sociology; Women; Sex role; Congresses; Italy; Patriarchy
First sentence: Although it is a commonplace that macaronic poetry shows the "underside" of the Renaissance, criticism of these texts has for the most part focused on the (certainly valuable) tasks of solving lexical puzzles, investigating the anthropological origins of certain culinary tidbits, and analyzing the highly sophisticated relation between the vulgate, Latin, and dialect.1