1st Edition
Doubting Women in Early Modern Italy Gender, Uncertainty, and Agency
Edited By Marco Faini
Copyright 2025
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural weakness, the essays gathered here reverse this view, demonstrating how women were able to embrace doubt as a means to expand their agency. Using doubt to contest both official narratives as well as religious and civil practices, women were able to carve... Read more
Acknowledgments, About the Authors, Introduction – Marco Faini, Part I. Doubt and the Querelle des Femmes, Part II. Religion, Part III. Literary Circles, Index
Biography
Marco Faini is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). His recently co-edited volumes include Errors, False Opinions, and Defective Knowledge in Early Modern Europe(Florence, 2023, with Marco Sgarbi). He is the author of Standing at the Crossroads. Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 2023).
