Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance

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The question of what it means to be human has preoccupied thinkers since antiquity. The classical humanism of the Italian Renaissance saw humanity as hierarchical, with elite European males at the apex while women, lower class or foreign men, and animals occupied varying lesser degrees of being. Using the theme of domestication to interrogate the intertwined notions of femininity, sexuality, and animality, Juliana Schiesari looks to early modern...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080209922X

ISBN13:9780802099228

Release Date:January 2010

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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