Refiguring Woman
Subtitle: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance
Contributors: Juliana Schiesari (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801425387
Subjects: Feminism; Sexual behaviour; Renaissance, 1450-1600; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Gender Studies; Women; Sociology; Congresses; History; Italy; Patriarchy; Sex role
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