TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiesari,Juliana
TI  - Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance
SN  - 9781442697881
AV  - HQ630.S35 2010 
U1  - 306.850945/09031 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 'Jewels of Women': Ladies, Laps, and Lapdogs in Renaissance Culture -- 2 Portrait of the Poet as a Dog: Petrarch's Epistola metrica III, 5 -- 3 Alberti's Cavallo vivo, or The 'Art' of Domination -- 4 Della Porta's Face of Domestication: Physiognomy, Gender Politics, and Humanism's Others -- 5 Psychoanalytic Intermezzo: Freud's Missed Reading of Leonardo's Alternative Humanism -- 6 Versions of Diana: Gender and Renaissance Mythography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z
N2  - Beasts and Beautiesexamines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals
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