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Paternal tyranny [electronic resource] / Arcangela Tarabotti ; edited and translated by Letizia Panizza.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 182 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780226789675 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226789675 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780226789651 (alk. paper)
  • 0226789659 (alk. paper)
  • 9780226789668 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0226789667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Semplicita ingannata. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Paternal tyranny.DDC classification:
  • 305.42 22
LOC classification:
  • BX4220.I8 T3713 2004eb
Online resources: Summary: Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing the many injustices perpetrated against women of her day. Paternal Tyranny, the first of these works, is a fiery but carefully argued manifesto against the oppression of women by the Venetian patriarchy. Denouncing key misogynist texts of the era, Tarabotti shows how despicable it was for Venice, a.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 305(45) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-36) and index.

Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing the many injustices perpetrated against women of her day. Paternal Tyranny, the first of these works, is a fiery but carefully argued manifesto against the oppression of women by the Venetian patriarchy. Denouncing key misogynist texts of the era, Tarabotti shows how despicable it was for Venice, a.

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