 | Beasts and Beauties: Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance Subjects: Families -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Patriarchy -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Human -- animal relationships -- Italy -- history -- 16th century; Animals and civilization -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Women -- Italy -- History -- Ren; Beasts and Beauties examines the relationship between domesticity and power by focusing on the contemporaneous development of the invention of the 'pet' and the delineation of the home as a uniquely private enclosure, where the pater familias ruled over his own secluded world of domesticated wife, children, servants, and animals. Schiesari Juliana : Juliana Schiesari is a professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. |
