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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Moffitt Peacock, Martha

Hardcover

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance HistoryEuropean Art

ISBN10: 9004399038
ISBN13: 9789004399037
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 20 2020
Pages: 506
Weight: 2.55
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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