Call for papers: Special Issue MALE VOICES IN THE WOMEN'S COMPLAINT: INTERTEXTUALITIES, TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS.

2024-02-06

SPECIAL ISSUE (2025):

MALE VOICES IN WOMEN'S COMPLAINT: INTERTEXTUALITIES, TRANSLATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS.

Edition: Mercedes Arriaga Flórez; Coordination: Assumpta Camps

The Women's Complaint was a literary and philosophical debate in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries about the nature and role of women in society. This dispute involved writers who expressed diverse opinions about the capabilities, virtues, and roles of women. Intertextuality is the feature that characterizes this debate, since the term "Querelle" already indicates a polemical response to other texts. There is therefore a strong intertextuality between the three different currents that constitute the Complaint. The first represented only and exclusively by misogynistic writers; the second represented by writers who defend the dignity of women against the arguments of the latter; and the third constituted by writers who openly declare themselves philogynists. By expanding through different European countries, the Women's Complaint also constitutes an international textual network in which translations, adaptations and imitations are key. Alessandro Piccolomini's dialogues were imitated by Giuseppe Betussi and Francesco Sansovino. Some of the most representative authors in this debate, such as Lodovico Dolce or Lodovico Domenichi, were at the same time authors, translators and editors of texts that fully enter into the Women's Complaint.

This issue is presented as a collection of essays on male voices on the topic of the Women's Complaint

Bibliography:

BETUSSI, Giuseppe (1556): Le imagini del tempio della signora Donna Giouanna Aragona, dialogo di m. Giuseppe Betussi. Alla illustriss. s. donna Vittoria Colonna di Tolledo. Florencia.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1967): De mulieribus claris, Vittore Branca (coord.), Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, vol. X, Milano: Mondadori.

DIALETI, Androniki (2003): “Defenders and Enemies of women in early modern Italian Querelle des femmes. Social and cultural categories or empty rhetoric”. En Gender and Power in the New Europe, the 5th European Feminist Research Conference, pp. 20-24.

DOLCE, Lodovico (2015): Dialogo della instituzion delle donne, secondo li tre stati che cadono nella vita umana, Helena Sanson, Cambridge (coord.) United Kingdom: Modern Humanities Research Association.

DOMENICHI, Lodovico (1551): Nobiltà delle donne. Venecia: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari

GRIECO, Sara Matthews (1990): “La «Querelle Des Femmes» Nell'Europa del Rinascimento”. Quaderni storici, vol. 25, no 74/2, pp. 683-688.

PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro (1545):  Orazione in lode alle donne. Venecia: Gabriele Giolito.

TASSO, Torquato (1582). Discorso della virtù femminile e donnesca. Venecia: Giunti.

 

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The TRANSFER special issue for 2025 follows the following guidelines and schedule.

SCHEDULE:

1) Submission of originals: originals are accepted, along with abstracts (Spanish/Italian and English) of 500 words in length; the keywords in both languages ​​(minimum 5), and a brief bionote of the author (which must include ORCID and full affiliation). Non-extendable DEADLINE: May 27, 2024.

2) The peer-review process will take place in June-July 2024.

3) Communication of acceptance to the authors: July 12, 2024, at the latest, although we will try to do so before the summer of 2024.

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