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Women and men in early modern Venice : reassessing history / Satya Datta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Datta, Satya Brata.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships.
- History.
- Artisans.
- Women.
- Venice (Italy)--History--1508-1797.
- Venice (Italy).
- Venice (Italy)--Social conditions--To 1797.
- Women--Italy--Venice--History.
- Artisans--Italy--Venice--History.
- Man-woman relationships--Italy--Venice--History.
- Italy--Venice.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Reflecting on the Nature of Historical Discourse: Some Theoretical Considerations 1
- Epistemological Considerations 3
- Descriptive gender studies 3
- The Scott-Tilly-Varikas controversy on gender/experience/discursive reality 5
- Intellectual history after the linguistic turn: texts and reality 10
- Meaning and experience in historical reality: a realist epistemological position 13
- Methodological Considerations 16
- The Object of Study and its Underlying Normative Commitment 20
- Logic of the Chapter Arrangement 22
- 2 The Social Experiences of Artisans in the Light of the Ruler-Ruled Relationship 25
- The Conceptualization of the Early Modern State in Contemporary Writings and the Case of Venice 27
- The Dialectics of Patrician-Popolani Relations and its Impact 37
- Patrician hegemony expressed through the state 43
- Popular consent in civil society 51
- Anti-hegemonic tendencies 68
- 3 The Cultural Experiences of Venetian Artisans During the Renaissance 89
- Culture/Popular Culture and Historical Studies 90
- Artists and Artisans in Renaissance Venice 96
- The separation of mental work from manual work 96
- The world of Venetian artists and artisans 99
- Artist-Artisan Collaboration 128
- The Issue of Art Consumption 131
- The role of trade guild confraternities in art promotion 137
- The role of devotional confraternities in art patronage 144
- The role of small confraternities in narrative paintings 147
- 4 Visible Women: The Feminist Experiences of Three Venetian Writers 155
- Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti: Three Early Feminist Voices 158
- Moderata Fonte's Il merito delle donne 160
- Lucrezia Marinella's La nobilta et eccellenza delle donne 164
- Arcangela Tarabotti as a nun and a feminist 167
- The Preconditions for Feminism in Early Modern Venice 172
- The Intellectual Status of Women in Sixteenth-century Italy 173
- The Social Status of Women in Early Modern Venice 176
- The oppression of women and social class 176
- The patriarchal view of female morality 178
- Marriage and 'donne malmaritate' (unhappily married women) 179
- 5 Invisible Women: The Working Experiences of Venetian Lacemakers 183
- A Useful Opening 183
- Interiority in History: The World of Venetian Working Women 185
- A short itinerary through the historical writings on women's work in Venice 186
- A dramatic story of insignificant women 190
- Dramatis personae 191
- Narrative sequences 196
- The world of lacemaking 200
- Deciphering the Meaning of Women's Working Experiences 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754633470
- OCLC:
- 50322829
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