Item Number: 130152 Title: Creating Women : Representation, Self-Representation, and Agency in the Renaissance Author: Scarci, Manuela (ed) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780772721464 Description: Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 24cm., pbk., 205pp. Contents: "In Joan of Arc's Shadow - The Maid of Orleans as Identificatory Model in Some Seventeenth-Century Polemical Texts", Jean-Philippe Beaulieu ; "Women's Voices in the Works of Suzanne de Nervèze", Diane Desrosiers ; "Speaking of Women and Giving Voice to Women - The Example of Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry's Femmes illustres ou les harangues héroïques", Renée Claude Breitenstein ; "Models for Women in the Letters of Huguenot Noblewomen 1560-1620?, Jane Couchman ; "Early Modern Englishwomen's Miserere - Ambitious and Penitent Expression", Patricia Demers ; "Female Impressions - Some Women Writers in Seventeenth-Century English Print", Anne Lake Prescott ; "Honour and Shame - The Construction of Married Women's Bodies in Fifteenth-Century Spanish Law", Dana Wessell Lightfoot ; "From a Manly Knowledge to a Man's Helpmeet - Changing Conceptions of Midwives' Roles in Seventeenth-Century France", Bridgette Ann Sheridan ; "The Many Faces of Female Discipline - Gender Control, Subversion, and the Nun-Confessor Relationship in Golden Age Barcelona", Cristian Berco ; "The Role of Women in Their Kin's Economic and Political Life - The Sienese Case (End XIV-Mid XV Century)", Elena Brizio ; "The Role of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony in the Planning of the Royal Palace of Caserta", Francesco Divenuto. (Essays and Studies, 31) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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