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Motherhood and Patriarchal Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy (Paperback)
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Motherhood and Patriarchal Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century Italian Comedy (Paperback)
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Exploring individual and collective formation of gender identities,
this book contributes to current scholarly discourses by examining
plays in the genre of 'erudite comedy' (commedia erudita), which
was extremely popular among sixteenth-century Italians from the
elite classes. Author Yael Manes investigates five erudite
comedies-Ludovico Ariosto's I suppositi (1509), NiccolA(2)
Machiavelli's La Mandragola (1518) and Clizia (1525), Antonio
Landi's Il commodo (1539), and Giovan Maria Cecchi's La stiava
(1546)-to consider how erudite comedies functioned as ideological
battlefields where the gender system of patriarchy was examined,
negotiated, and critiqued. These plays reflect the patriarchal
order of their elite social milieu, but they also offer a unique
critical vantage point on the paradoxical formation of patriarchal
masculinity. On the one hand, patriarchal ideology rejects the
mother and forbids her as an object of desire; on the other hand,
patriarchal male identity revolves around representations of
motherhood. Ultimately, the comedies reflect the desire of the
Italian Renaissance male elite for women who will provide children
to their husbands but not actively assume the role of a mother. In
sum, Manes reveals a wide cultural understanding that motherhood-as
an activity that women undertake, not simply a relational position
they occupy-challenges patriarchy because it bestows women with
agency, power, and authority. Manes here recovers the complexity of
Renaissance Italian discourse on gender and identity formation by
approaching erudite comedies not only as mirrors of their audiences
but also as vehicles for contemporary audiences' ideological,
psychological, and emotional expressions.
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