The volume presents an in-depth, investigative study of a tightly-constructed set of crucial themes, including that of the female body as a governing trope in political and cultural discourses; the roles played by women and notions of womanhood in redefining traditions of ceremo…
This collection of essays examines the roles women have played in interrogating, forming, informing and reforming political discourse, cultural tradition and ceremony, social mores and the patronage and definition of art since the Renaissance.
The volume presents an in-depth, investigative study of a tightly-constructed set of crucial themes, including that of the female body as a governing trope in political and cultural discourses; the roles played by women and notions of womanhood in redefining traditions of ceremo…