Creating women : representation, self-representation, and agency in the Renaissance / edited by Manuela Scarci.

Other author Scarci, Manuela, 1957- writer of introduction, editor.
Other author Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Other author Creating Women : Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700 (Conference) (2005 : Toronto, Ont.)
Format Book
PublicationToronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013.
Description205 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600. --History and criticism.
European literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--Europe. --History. --17th century.
Women in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Self in literature.
Women--History. --Renaissance, 1450-1600.

SeriesEssays and Studies ; 31
Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 31. ^A1189443
Contents Introduction / Manuela Scarci -- Women and their fictions -- 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 hèroïques / Renée-Claude Breitenstein -- Women and their writings -- 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 -- Women and their bodies -- 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 -- Women and their agency -- 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.
General note"Essays stem from the conference 'Creating Women: Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700,' held November 11-12, 2005."--Title page verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
LCCN 2013455037
ISBN9780772721464 (pbk.)
ISBN0772721467 (pbk.)
ISBN9780772721471 (pdf)
ISBN0772721475 (pdf)

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