{"product_id":"ladies-errant-deanna-shemek-9780822321675","title":"Ladies Errant","description":"The issue of a woman's place-and the possibility that she might stray from it-was one of early modern Italy's most persistent social concerns. \u003ci\u003eLadies Errant\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its starting point the vast literature of this era devoted to the proper conduct and education of women. Deanna Shemek uses this foundation to present the problem of wayward feminine behavior as it was perceived to threaten male identity and social order in the artistic and intellectual articulations of the Italian Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003eSeeing errancy as an act of resistance rather than of error, Shemek carries her study beyond the didactic and prescriptive literature on femininity in early modern Italy to an arena in which theories about femininity are considered jointly with real and fictional instances of women's waywardness. As prostitutes, warriors, lovers, and poets, the women of Shemek's study are found in canonical texts, marginal works, and popular artistic activity, appearing, for instance, in literature, paintings, legal proceedings, and accounts of public festivals. By juxtaposing these varied places of errancy-from Ariosto's chivalric \u003ci\u003eOrlando furioso\u003c\/i\u003e to the prostitutes' race in the Palio di San Giorgio-Shemek points to the important contact between elite and popular cultures in early modernity, revealing the strength and flexibility of a gender boundary fundamental to early modern conceptions of social order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deanna Shemek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082232167X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822321675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.19w x 0.78d","brand":"Deanna Shemek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962524848383,"sku":"9780822321675","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1607c92c-e789-4c13-9e36-b1c638042492.jpg?v=1750651711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ladies-errant-deanna-shemek-9780822321675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}