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Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004399037)
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xCo-Honorable Mention for the 2021 Book Award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG)
In Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives, Martha Moffitt Peacock provides a novel interpretive approach to the artistic practice of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age. From the beginnings of the new Republic, visual celebrations of famous heroines who crossed gender boundaries by fighting in the Revolt against Spain or by distinguishing themselves in arts and letters became an essential and significant cultural tradition that reverberated throughout the long seventeenth century. This collective memory of consequential heroines who equaled, or outshone, men is frequently reflected in empowering representations of other female archetypes: authoritative harpies and noble housewives. Such enabling imagery helped in the structuring of gender norms that positively advanced a powerful female identity in Dutch society.
Author: Martha Moffitt Peacock
ISBN-10: 9004399038
ISBN-13: 9789004399037
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2020
Pages: 532
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
In Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives, Martha Moffitt Peacock provides a novel interpretive approach to the artistic practice of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age. From the beginnings of the new Republic, visual celebrations of famous heroines who crossed gender boundaries by fighting in the Revolt against Spain or by distinguishing themselves in arts and letters became an essential and significant cultural tradition that reverberated throughout the long seventeenth century. This collective memory of consequential heroines who equaled, or outshone, men is frequently reflected in empowering representations of other female archetypes: authoritative harpies and noble housewives. Such enabling imagery helped in the structuring of gender norms that positively advanced a powerful female identity in Dutch society.
Author: Martha Moffitt Peacock
ISBN-10: 9004399038
ISBN-13: 9789004399037
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2020
Pages: 532
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d
By Martha Moffitt Peacock
xMartha Moffitt Peacock is Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies at Brigham Young University. She has recently published "The Maid of Holland and Her Heroic Heiresses" in Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 (Brill, 2019).
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