LEADER 04312nam 2200721 450 001 9910820415403321 005 20230912172920.0 010 $a1-4426-8066-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442680661 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001046 035 $a(EBL)4672023 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000375674 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12111193 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375674 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10327685 035 $a(PQKB)10968500 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600327 035 $a(DE-B1597)464927 035 $a(OCoLC)1013949245 035 $a(OCoLC)944177457 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442680661 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672023 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257709 035 $a(OCoLC)431553223 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/g530xs 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254820 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001046 100 $a20160922h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe century of women $erepresentation of women in eighteenth-century Italian public discourse /$fRebecca Messbarger 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2002. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Italian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-3652-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note to the Reader -- $tIntroduction: The Century of Women -- $t1. The Debate -- $t2. The Very Fibre of Their Being: Antonio Conti's Materialist Argument for Women's Inferiority -- $t3. Palliated Resistance: Diamante Medaglia Faini on 'Which Studies Are Fitting for Women -- $t4. For the Public Good: tt Gaffed 'Defence of Women -- $t5. Counter-Discourse: La donna galante ed erudita -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aEighteenth-century Italian playwright Pietro Chiari designated the age he lived in 'The Century of Women' ? an age when women gained considerable power through education and admission to various academic positions and professions. Structured as an extended disputation, this book tells the tale of five paradigmatic and ideologically divergent eighteenth-century Italian texts by male and female authors whose leitmotif is woman. These include an academic debate, a scientific tract, an oration, an Enlightenment journal, and a fashion magazine. Analysis focuses on the specific ways in which the exigencies of the 'new science' and the burgeoning Enlightenment project founded on rational civil law, secular moral philosophy, and utilitarian social ethics forced a transformation in the formal controversy about women.By uncovering the characteristics of the expansive dominant discourse about women among Italian Enlightenment thinkers and of the counter-discourse women authors produced to assert their own distinct authority over constructions of femininity and the public sphere, this study reconceives eighteenth-century Italian culture and rectifies misconceptions about Italy's position and influence within the literary republic of the European Enlightenment. Groundbreaking and original, this study is the first to examine the contribution of women to the Republic of Letters of the Settecento, and will revise prevailing notions of eighteenth-century Italian culture and academia. 410 0$aToronto Italian studies. 606 $aWomen$zItaly$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen$zItaly$xHistory$y18th century$vSources 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zItaly$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aWomen$xEducation$zItaly$xHistory$y18th century$vSources 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xEducation$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xEducation$xHistory 676 $a305.42/0945/09033 700 $aMessbarger$b Rebecca Marie$01678329 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820415403321 996 $aThe century of women$94045887 997 $aUNINA