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  • Devianza sessuale e imperativi genealogici : il caso di Margherita Farnese
    Finucci, Valeria
    The paper examines the case of Margherita Farnese, whose marriage to Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga in 1581 had to be annulled because of a problematic sexual anatomy. As the the body of a rich, young and ... appropriately chaste princess suddenly started to be perceived as deviant so doctors from various courts converged to Mantua and Parma to give their opinion on what makes a female body typical. In working through the problematics of normal/subversive, I will discuss the medical discovery (actually, recovery) in the Renaissance of specific information about constitutive parts of the female sexual apparatus, the Church's take on what makes a marriage valid; the politicians' need to guarantee an ordered successionč and the cultural hysteria coming from an inconvenient 'hyster'
    Source: Acta Histriae. - ISSN 1318-0185 (Letn. 15, št. 2, 2007, str. 385-398)
    Type of material - article, component part ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2007
    Language - italian
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1407955

source: Acta Histriae. - ISSN 1318-0185 (Letn. 15, št. 2, 2007, str. 385-398)
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