Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives - Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age

Co-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.

Info autore

Martha 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).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martha Moffitt Peacock, Martha Moffitt Peacock
• Editore: Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9789004399037
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39903-7
• Pagine: 532
• Dimensioni: 157 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Peso: 1157 g
• Serie: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918