Sold to him for a pitifully small bag of coins and a pretty piece of. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies that "marginalized" historical and fictional women, these essays counter scholarly and critical traditions that continue to exhibit patriarchal biases. One night, a chance encounter with a handsome chicken thief changes her life forever. Topics covered include representations of women in literature and art, the actual work done by women both inside and outside of the home, and the writings of women themselves. They explore the major conequences of patriarchy for women-their marginalization and lack of identity and power-and the ways in which individual women or groups of women broke, or in some cases deliberately circumvented, the rules that defined them as a secondary sex. Throughout, the essays focus on the structures of Renaissance patriarchy that organized power relations both in the state and in the family. In the process, the contributors enrich the emerging languages of and about women, gender, and sexual difference.
An outstanding array of scholars-literary critics, art critics, and historians-reexamines the role of women and their relations with men during the Renaissance. Juxtaposing the insights of feminism with those of marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, this unique collection creates new common ground for women's studies and Renaissance studies.
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