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02409aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 7DEF28C0840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171003t20182018onc b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781487503147 020 $a 1487503148 035 $a (OCoLC)1005105237 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BUF $d NLC $d SILO 043 $a e-it--- 050 14 $a PQ4055.W6 $b M55 2018 055 0 $a PQ4055 W6 $b M55 2018 082 04 $a 850.9/9287 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 084 $a coll13 $2 lacc 100 1 $a Milligan, Gerry, $d 1972- $e author. 245 10 $a Moral combat : $b women, gender, and war in Italian Renaissance literature / $c Gerry Milligan. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b University of Toronto Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 332 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Toronto Italian studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women's militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women's right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women's virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and victims of war. Moral Combat asks how and why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of this age. Gerry Milligan discusses the armed heroines of biography and epic within the context of contemporary debates over women's combat abilities and men's martial obligations. Women are frequently described as fighting because men have failed their masculine duty. A woman's prowess at arms was asserted to be a cultural symptom of men's shortcomings. Moral Combat ultimately argues that the popularity of the warrior woman in sixteenth-century Italian literature was due to her dual function of shame and praise: calling men to action and signaling potential victory to a disempowered people."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Italian literature $y 16th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 0 $a War in literature. 830 0 $a Toronto Italian studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212023617.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7DEF28C0840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search