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Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe - Gender, Agency, Identity (Paperback)
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Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe - Gender, Agency, Identity (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women
as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and
limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with
particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for
women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low
Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of
these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad
contributions: it dispels false assumptions about agency's
possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside
of conventional understanding, and, conversely, how it can be
stretched too far. It demonstrates that agency is compatible with
relational gender analysis, especially when alternative agencies
such as spectatorship are taken into account. It also makes evident
the importance of aesthetics for the study of identity and agency.
The individual essays reveal, among other things, how portraits
broadened the traditional parameters of portraiture, explored
transvestism and same-sex eroticism, appropriated aspects of male
portraiture to claim those values for their sitters, and, as sites
for gender negotiation, resistance, and debate, invoked
considerable relational anxiety. Richly layered in method, the book
offers an array of provocative insights into its subject.
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