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1 online resource (xii, 490 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Summary |
This work illuminates the social and cultural landscape of 18th-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cicisbei : Italian morality and European values in the eighteenth century / Roberto Bizzocchi -- The temple of female glory : female self-affirmation in the Roman salon of the grand tour / Maria Pia Donato -- Giustina Renier Michiel and conflicting ideas of gender in late eighteenth-century Venice / Susan Dalton -- Revisiting Arcadia : women and academies in eighteenth-century Italy / Elisabetta Graziosi -- "On the canvas and on the page" : women shaping culture in eighteenth-century Venice / Catherine M. Sama -- "The residence of the arts" : Angelica Kauffman's place in Rome / Wendy Wassyng Roworth -- Strange births and surprising kin : the castrato's tale / Martha Feldman -- Sex without sex : an erotic image of the castrato singer / Roger Freitas -- Anatomy of a lesbian : medicine, pornography, and culture in eighteenth-century Italy / Paula Findlen -- As who dare gaze the sun : Anna Morandi Manzolini's wax anatomies of the male reproductive system and genitalia / Rebecca Messbarge -- Between modesty and spectacle : women and science in eighteenth-century Italy / Marta Cavazza -- "Monsters of talent" : fame and reputation of women improvisers in Arcadia / Paola Giuli -- Gender and genre in the religious art of the Catholic Enlightenment / Christopher M.S. Johns. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Women. |
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Italy. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Sex role -- Italy -- History -- 18th century.
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Sex role. |
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History. |
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Italy -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Findlen, Paula.
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Roworth, Wendy Wassyng, 1945-
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Sama, Catherine M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780804759045 |
| ISBN |
9780804787543 (electronic book) |
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0804787549 (electronic book) |
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9780804759045 |
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0804759049 |
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