The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance by Valeria Finucci

The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance

Valeria Finucci

316 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging reflective medium-paced
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The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence: medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and pla...

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