Refiguring Woman reassesses the significance of gender in what has been considered the bastion of gender-neutral humanist thought, the Italian Renaissance. It brings together eleven new essays that investigate key topics concerning the hermeneutics and political economy of gender and the relationship between gender and the Renaissance canon. Taken together, they call into question a host of assumptions about the period, revealing the implicit and explicit misogyny underlying many Renaissance social and discursive practices.
- ISBN10 080149771X
- ISBN13 9780801497711
- Publish Date 11 August 2006 (first published 1 June 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English