Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images

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James Turner
Cambridge University Press, 1993/08/05 - 345 ページ
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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Marriage love sex and Renaissance civic morality
10
Typology sexuality and the Renaissance Esther
31
Artifice as seduction in Titian
55
Renaissance women and the question of class
90
Venetian women writers and their discontents
107
The ambiguity of beauty in Tasso and Petrarch
133
The ladies man and the age of Elizabeth
158
Troping Utopia Donnes brief for lesbianism
182
Staging gender William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Gary
208
The semiotics of masculinity in Renaissance England
233
Recuperating women and the man behind the screen
247
A womb of his own male Renaissance poets in the female body
266
The geography of love in seventeenthcentury womens fiction
289
Gender and conduct in Paradise Lost
310
Index
339
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