This essay examines the Italian querelle des femmes through the prism of two well-known legends of the Western tradition, those of Pygmalion and Zeuxis. Paradigmatically capturing the male desire for creativity, the regulation of female body through the male gaze and narcissistic love of the male self, these legends can help us better understand some aspects of the debate about women primarily from the perspective of masculinity. The essay suggests that the querelle des femmes was after all a site of male self-fashioning that was articulating through the othering of women and the plebeians, and the strengthening of homosocial bonds among men of the political and intellectual elite. Creativity, companionship, and rivalry became crucial const...
The essay deals with the mystical feminine writing of the xi-xvii centuries. These texts provide a ...
Bodies can be defined as devices, in which, all sort of meanings can be written and re-written. In t...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Giddens proposed a new kind of androgyny intended as a way to ...
Attraverso l'analisi di alcune opere tra Otto e Novecento si analizza il rapporto controverso tra co...
El artículo estudia a las escritoras místicas italianas y analiza su contribución dentro de la Dispu...
This article analyses the figures of women and men in the text of the Orazione in lode alle donne (1...
On the basis of research conducted across several men’s focus groups in coordination with Maschile P...
L’articolo studia le scrittrici mistiche italiane e analizza il loro contributo all’inte...
This work focuses on a particular figure of the monster: the hermaphrodite who has been considered s...
The purpose of this paper is to inquire female self-representation in women’s poetry in early XVIII ...
The topic of this article is a study of the evolution of the Italian Bildungsroman in the second hal...
This article examines early modern cultural meanings of gender deviance and sex transformations look...
This article aims to analyse, in the context of the querelle des femmes, the only book written by Gi...
In this paper we analyse the political nature of the Querelle des Femmes. I will use as a reference ...
In the 18th century, the relationship between the male and the female became particularly relevant a...
The essay deals with the mystical feminine writing of the xi-xvii centuries. These texts provide a ...
Bodies can be defined as devices, in which, all sort of meanings can be written and re-written. In t...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Giddens proposed a new kind of androgyny intended as a way to ...
Attraverso l'analisi di alcune opere tra Otto e Novecento si analizza il rapporto controverso tra co...
El artículo estudia a las escritoras místicas italianas y analiza su contribución dentro de la Dispu...
This article analyses the figures of women and men in the text of the Orazione in lode alle donne (1...
On the basis of research conducted across several men’s focus groups in coordination with Maschile P...
L’articolo studia le scrittrici mistiche italiane e analizza il loro contributo all’inte...
This work focuses on a particular figure of the monster: the hermaphrodite who has been considered s...
The purpose of this paper is to inquire female self-representation in women’s poetry in early XVIII ...
The topic of this article is a study of the evolution of the Italian Bildungsroman in the second hal...
This article examines early modern cultural meanings of gender deviance and sex transformations look...
This article aims to analyse, in the context of the querelle des femmes, the only book written by Gi...
In this paper we analyse the political nature of the Querelle des Femmes. I will use as a reference ...
In the 18th century, the relationship between the male and the female became particularly relevant a...
The essay deals with the mystical feminine writing of the xi-xvii centuries. These texts provide a ...
Bodies can be defined as devices, in which, all sort of meanings can be written and re-written. In t...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Giddens proposed a new kind of androgyny intended as a way to ...