Paternal tyranny [electronic resource] / Arcangela Tarabotti ; edited and translated by Letizia Panizza.
Material type: TextLanguage: 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)
- Semplicita ingannata. English
- Monastic and religious life of women -- Italy -- Venice
- Women -- Italy -- Venice -- Social conditions
- Patriarchy -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Women -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Vrouwendiscriminatie
- Vader-dochter-relaties
- Electronic books
- საზოგადოებრივი მეცნიერებანი-- ქალთა სამონასტრო ცხოვრება-- რელიგიური ასპექტები
- 305.42 22
- BX4220.I8 T3713 2004eb
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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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