Moderata Fonte
Subtitle: Women and Life in Sixteenth-Century Venice
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780838639986
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Literary studies: general; Women's studies; World history; c 1500 to c 1600; History; European - Italian; Women; Social Science; Gender Studies; Italian; History: World; Italy; Feminism & Feminist Theory; 16th century; Venice; Women Authors; Women's Studies - General; 1555-1592; Fonte, Moderata,; Social conditions
Description: "What did it mean to be a woman in sixteenth-century Venice? How did women impact the everyday life of this brilliant, festive, but essentially patriarchical city? How did an educated, sensitive, and intelligent woman writer of the Venetian citizen class treat the question of gender relationships and of women's place in society? These questions are at the center of this volume, which explores the role of Venetian women in sixteenth-century culture as well as the contribution of the writer Moderata Fonte to the centuries-old "war of the sexes.""--Jacket.