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Beasts and Beauties

- Animals, Gender, and Domestication in the Italian Renaissance

About Beasts and Beauties

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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780802099228
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 176
  • Published:
  • January 19, 2010
  • Dimensions:
  • 161x238x15 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 400 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 18, 2024

Description of Beasts and Beauties

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.

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