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- catalog abstract ""What did it mean to be a woman in sixteenth-century Venice? How did women impact the everyday life of this brilliant, festive, but essentially patriarchical city? How did an educated, sensitive, and intelligent woman writer of the Venetian citizen class treat the question of gender relationships and of women's place in society? These questions are at the center of this volume, which explores the role of Venetian women in sixteenth-century culture as well as the contribution of the writer Moderata Fonte to the centuries-old "war of the sexes.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12954473.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""What did it mean to be a woman in sixteenth-century Venice? How did women impact the everyday life of this brilliant, festive, but essentially patriarchical city? How did an educated, sensitive, and intelligent woman writer of the Venetian citizen class treat the question of gender relationships and of women's place in society? These questions are at the center of this volume, which explores the role of Venetian women in sixteenth-century culture as well as the contribution of the writer Moderata Fonte to the centuries-old "war of the sexes.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-169) and index.".
- catalog description "Moderate Fonte: her life and works -- Growing up female and literate in sixteenth-century Venice -- Cultural and social life in sixteenth-century Venice -- Myth of Venice and sixteenth-century women -- Woman warrior -- Enchantress or the rewriting of the myth of Circe -- Rhetorical strategies in two dialogues of the Italian Cinquecento -- Woman's discourse in the early modern period.".
- catalog extent "175 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Moderata Fonte.".
- catalog identifier "0838639984 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Moderata Fonte.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Moderata Fonte.".
- catalog spatial "Italy Venice".
- catalog subject "305.42/0945/31 21".
- catalog subject "Fonte, Moderata, 1555-1592.".
- catalog subject "HQ1645.V45 M35 2003".
- catalog subject "Women Italy Venice History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Italy Venice Social conditions 16th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Moderate Fonte: her life and works -- Growing up female and literate in sixteenth-century Venice -- Cultural and social life in sixteenth-century Venice -- Myth of Venice and sixteenth-century women -- Woman warrior -- Enchantress or the rewriting of the myth of Circe -- Rhetorical strategies in two dialogues of the Italian Cinquecento -- Woman's discourse in the early modern period.".
- catalog title "Moderata Fonte : women and life in sixteenth-century Venice / Paola Malpezzi Price.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".