Catalogo
Gender Models Alternative Communities ans Women’s Utopianism - Bologna University Press
Collana
Rizomatica, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne - LILEC
Gender Models Alternative Communities ans Women’s Utopianism
Margaret Cavendish Aphra Behn and Mary Astell
di Gilberta Golinelli
Gender Models Alternative Communities and Women’s Utopianism explores utopianism in Margaret Cavendish Aphra Behn and Mary Astell as a dynamic open model which aims gradually to achieve a better world. Their utopian speculations examine and challenge the relationship between nature and nurture women’s access to knowledge and power and the possibility of imagining a politics of desire and sexuality which are not regulated by the dominant heterosexual system. The works here examined are especially significant in that they help us to understand the negotiations and contradictions which have long accompanied the process of self-determination and emancipation of women. Cavendish Behn and Astell have been considered feminists proto-feminists and particularly in the historical and philosophical field Tory feminists and this is still the case. In favour of the monarchy “ the symbol par excellence of patriarchal power “ Cavendish Behn and Astell were amongst the first women to advocate an increased and improved education for women. Gilberta Golinelli is senior lecturer at the University of Bologna where she teaches Feminist Methodology and Critical Utopias. She has published several essays and articles on the concept of genius Early Modern English travel literature and Shakespeare. Her books include a study of the reception of Shakespeare in England and Germany (La formazione del canone shakespeariano tra identità nazionale ed estetica. Inghilterra e Germania 1700-1770 2003) and a stu…
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Disciplina
Letteratura e linguistica
Argomento
Critica letteraria, Studi di genere
Formato
140 × 210 mm
Pagine
280
Anno
2018
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9788869233449