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Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy 1470-1900 Prescribing and Describing Life

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Preface
Sanson (Helena)
Pages 9 to 38
Introduction Women and Conduct in the Italian Tradition, 1470-1900: An Overview
Sanson (Helena)
Pages 41 to 61
Conduct for the Real Widow Giulio Cesare Cabei’s Ornamenti della gentildonna vedova (1574)
Sanson (Helena)
Pages 63 to 80
Vincenzo Nolfi’s Ginipedia (1631) Household Management and Civic Femininity in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Evangelisti (Silvia)
Pages 81 to 102
La perfetta claustrale Manuali sei-settecenteschi per l’istruzione delle monache
Zarri (Gabriella)
Pages 103 to 117
L’Amico delle fanciulle da Parigi a Venezia
Pizzamiglio (Gilberto)
Pages 119 to 134
Gender, Genre and Education Writing about Conduct in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Hallamore Caesar (Ann)
Pages 137 to 158
Letteratura di condotta e vita delle donne nelle opere di Moderata Fonte e Lucrezia Marinelli
Chemello (Adriana)
Pages 159 to 183
The Structures of Conduct Literature in Post-Unification Italy La Marchesa Colombi’s La gente per bene, Anna Vertua Gentile’s Come devo comportarmi?, and Matilde Serao’s Saper vivere
Hosker (Lucy)
Pages 185 to 203
“La giovane nella famiglia. Consigli di una vecchia nonna” Women’s Writings and Writings for Women in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Musiani (Elena)
Pages 207 to 226
“An mulieribus licitum sit se ornare” Female Appearance as an Emerging Object of Juridical Regulation between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
Boldrini (Federica)
Pages 227 to 241
Advising on Women’s Conduct in Renaissance Paratexts
Richardson (Brian)
Pages 243 to 263
L’anatomia del cuore e del cervello delle donne Descrizione, prescrizione e ironia nel XVIII secolo
Lucioli (Francesco)
Pages 265 to 281
"Dal salotto alla cucina" Le buone maniere nei manuali di cucina e di economia domestica nell’Italia postunitaria
Bertini Malgarini (Patrizia), Caria (Marzia)
Pages 283 to 299
Istruzione femminile e metamorfosi dell’identità in Italia fra Ottocento e Novecento
Covato (Carmela)
Pages 303 to 323
Dal lavoro alla disciplina Precettistica e libri di ricami
Plebani (Tiziana)
Pages 325 to 345
Un modello alla rovescia Comportamenti e mestieri femminili nell’opera di Giulio Cesare Croce
Collina (Beatrice)
Pages 347 to 364
Un altro saper vivere Donna, lavoro, buon comportamento tra Otto e Novecento
Botteri (Inge)
Pages 365 to 411
References
Pages 413 to 421
Index of names
Pages 423 to 431
Abstracts
Pages 433 to 434
Table of figures
Pages 435 to 437
Contents
Conduct literature for and about women offers a fascinating insight into the changing role of women across the centuries. This volume aims to trace some of the main features of conduct texts in the Italian tradition, from the last decades of the fifteenth century to the post-unification period.
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-05916-5
  • EAN: 9782406059165
  • ISSN: 2551-3559
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-05918-9
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 10-24-2016
  • Languages: English, Italian
  • Keyword: History of women, gender studies, Italian history, Italian literature, conduct books

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