Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe

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Paperback | 4 October 1993

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This exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago: that the "natural" phenomena of sex, gender, and subjectivity are constructed rather than essentially biological or fixed. The essays in this collection rise to the challenge of producing a new post-Foucaultian history of gender and sexuality. All of them have been influenced by feminism, and several deal with women not just as objects of representation, but as subjects and authors in their own right. Among the historical issues examined are the production and suppression of women's voices, the relation between illicit sexuality and social order, the ambiguity of beauty, lesbian erotics, birth-imagery and the birthing ritual, the class status of women, the "feminity" of masculine dress, and the sexual politics of courtesy. The volume provides a new perspective on the literature, art, and society of Renaissance Italy, France, and England.

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"The great strength of this volume is that it displays the wide variety of approaches being applied to cultural products of the Renaissance. In particular, it demonstrates how the juxtaposition and reconsideration of different types of evidence (visual, literary, and 'empirical') can significantly enrich our understanding of the Renaissance." Linda L. Gaus, Sixteenth Century Journal

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1400 to 1600 Renaissance Art Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

List of illustrations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xii
Preface and acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction: A history of sexuality?	p. 1
Marriage, love, sex, and Renaissance civic morality	p. 10
Typology, sexuality, and the Renaissance Esther	p. 31
Artifice as seduction in Titian	p. 55
Renaissance women and the question of class	p. 90
Venetian women writers and their discontents	p. 107
The ambiguity of beauty in Tasso and Petrarch	p. 133
The ladies' man and the age of Elizabeth	p. 158
Troping Utopia: Donne's brief for lesbianism	p. 182
Staging gender: William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Cary	p. 208
The semiotics of masculinity in Renaissance England	p. 233
Recuperating women and the man behind the screen	p. 247
A womb of his own: male Renaissance poets in the female body	p. 266
The geography of love in seventeenth-century women's fiction	p. 289
Gender and conduct in Paradise Lost	p. 310
Index	p. 339
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