Creating Women: Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700

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11-12 November 2005

Sponsored by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Victoria College, University of Toronto

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise of work on notions of femininity in the Renaissance; the formidable increase in modern editions of texts by early modern women (in their original language as well as in translation) has enriched debates on gendered identities for women, and opened new questions for scholarly investigations.

This conference aims to explore constructs of the female identity, by men and women, not only in Europe but in the new world as well, in all fields in the Renaissance: literature, the visual arts, history, religion, jurisprudence, and medicine. Priority will be given to papers dealing with texts, creative or otherwise, images, and documents that problematize gender, are less well known, or occur in geographical, social or political contexts that have been studied and analyzed to a lesser extent thus far.

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For Further Details Contact:

Professor Manuela Scarci
Department of Italian Studies 100 St. Joseph Street, Carr Hall
Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1J4
(416) 978-1300 x3345

Professor Jane Abray
Department of History 100 St. George Street, Sidney Smith Hall
Toronto, ON CANADA, M5S 3G3

The organizers would like to thank the following sponsors:
SSHRCC
Victoria College, Office of the President
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Office of the Dean for the Faculty of Arts & Science
CRRS
School of Graduate Studies
Centre for Medieval Studies
Dept. of French
Dept. of Italian
Faculty of Law
Dept. of English
TRRC