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Roman Charity

Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture
Buch | Softcover
430 Seiten
2016
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978-3-8376-3284-2 (ISBN)

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Roman Charity - Jutta Gisela Sperling
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»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of Pero, the daughter who breastfed her father, as a figure of excess, queer desire, and dissent in early modern patriarchy.


»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.

Jutta Gisela Sperling (PhD) teaches early modern history at Hampshire College, MA. Her research interests include convent studies, comparative legal studies in the Mediterranean, and early modern lactation imagery.

»Sperlings book is a useful addition to scholarly conversations in several fields and disciplines - art history and early modern gender studies in particular. Though not a text for an introductory course, it provides more advanced students and researchers with thoughtful and creative tools for analyzing the transmission of images through time as well as about the ways in which we engage the meaning and reception of those images.«

Peter Carlson, Comitatus, 48 (2017) 20171009

»Sperlings book is a useful addition to scholarly conversations in several fields and disciplines – art history and early modern gender studies in particular. Though not a text for an introductory course, it provides more advanced students and researchers with thoughtful and creative tools for analyzing the transmission of images through time as well as about the ways in which we engage the meaning and reception of those images.«

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Image ; 87
Verlagsort Bielefeld
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 225 mm
Gewicht 673 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte ART • Art History • Cultural History • Early Modern History • Fine Arts • Gender • Gender Studies • Gender Studies / Gender-Forschung • Image • Patriarchy • Queer Studies • Queer Theory • Stillen • Visual Culture • Visual Studies
ISBN-10 3-8376-3284-9 / 3837632849
ISBN-13 978-3-8376-3284-2 / 9783837632842
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