Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture by Valerie Traub

Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture by Valerie Traub

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Summary

This collection of essays explores the ways in which the new developments of the Renaissance affected the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves. In so doing, the authors discover that the female subject of the Renaissance shares much conceptual territory with her postmodern counterpart.

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Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture by Valerie Traub

How did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this question by analysing a wide spectrum of cultural concerns - humanism, technology, science, law, anatomy, literacy, domesticity, colonialism, erotic practices, and the theatre - in order to delineate the history of subjectivity and its relationship with the postmodern fragmented subject. The scope of this analysis expands the terrain explored by feminist theory, while its feminist focus reveals that the subject is always gendered - although the terms in which gender is conceived and represented change across history. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture not only explores the representation of gendered subjects, but in its commitment to balancing the productive tensions of methodological diversity, also speaks to contemporary challenges facing feminism.
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ISBN 13 9780521558198
ISBN 10 0521558190
Title Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
Author Valerie Traub
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1996-10-10
Number of pages 320
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