Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century : English women writers and the public sphere / / Katharine Gillespie [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784315203321
• Autore: Gillespie Katharine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-107-14822-7; 1-280-45795-3; 0-511-18586-3; 0-511-18503-0; 0-511-18770-X; 0-511-31374-8; 0-511-48358-9; 0-511-18677-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/358
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 17th century; English literature - Puritan authors - History and criticism; English literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Dissenters, Religious - England - History - 17th century; Women and literature - England - History - 17th century; Puritan women - England - Intellectual life; Dissenters, Religious, in literature; Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Literature and the war
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sabrina versus the state -- "Born of the mother's seed" : liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism -- A hammer in her hand : Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state -- Cure for a diseased head : divorce and contract in the prophesies of Elizabeth Poole -- The unquenchable smoking flax : Sarah Wight, Anne ; Wentworth, and the "rise" of the sovereign individual -- Improving God's estate : pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the separation of Church from state, privacy, and individualism. Gillespie argues that their sermons, prophesies, and petitions illustrate the fact that these liberal theories did not originate only with such well-known male thinkers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Rather, they emerged also from a group of determined female religious dissenters who used the Bible to reassess traditional definitions of womanhood, public speech and religious and political authority. Gillespie takes the 'pamphlet literatures' of the seventeenth century as important subjects for analysis, and her study contributes to the important scholarship on the revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of the mid-seventeenth-century Civil War in England.

Vital subjects : race and biopolitics in Italy, 1860-1920 / / Rhiannon Noel Welch [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910136927903321
• Autore: Welch Rhiannon Noel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2016; Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-78138-455-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Transnational Italian cultures ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 945/.08
• Soggetti: Biopolitics - Italy - History; Race - History; Italy Social life and customs 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-261) and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Since World War II, Italy has struggled to recast both its colonial past and its alliance with Nazi Germany. For many years, pervading much intellectual and public discourse was the contention that, prior to the great influx of racialized migrants in the mid-1980s, and with the exception of the Fascist period, there simply was no race (racialized others, racist intolerance, etc.) in Italy.<i> Vital Subjects</i> examines cultural production-literature, sociology and public health discourse, and early film-from the years between Unification and the end of the First World War (ca. 1860 and 1920) in order to explore how race and colonialism were integral to modern Italian national culture, rather than a marginal afterthought or a Fascist aberration. Drawing from theorizations of biopolitics-a term coined by political theorists from Michel Foucault to Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and numerous others to address how the life and productivity of the population emerges as a distinctively modern political question-the book repositions discourses of race and colonialism with regard to post-Unification national culture. <i>Vital Subjects</i> reads cultural texts in a biopolitical key, arguing that the tenor of racial discourse was overwhelmingly positive, focusing on making Italians as <u>vital ; subjects</u>--robust, vigorous, well-nourished, and (re)productive.