Description: Copied from Amazon 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 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 'femininity' of masculine dress, and the sexual politics of courtesy.
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Book Title: Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts,
ISBN-10: 0521446058
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Number of Pages: 364 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe : Institutions, Texts, Images
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, European, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, History / Renaissance
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 1993
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: James Grantham Turner
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
