Paternal tyranny

Tarabotti, Arcangela. (Author). Panizza, Letizia. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226789675 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226789675 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780226789651 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0226789659 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780226789668 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0226789667 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxix, 182 p.)
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-36) and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.