Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Gender and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy 1
6. PART ONE. Gender and Public Life
7. 1. Cicisbei: Italian Morality and European Values in the Eighteenth Century 35
8. 2. The Temple of Female Glory: Female Self-Affirmation in the Roman Salon of the Grand Tour 59
9. 3. Giustina Renier Michiel and Conflicting Ideas of Gender in Late Eighteenth-Century Venice 79
10. PART TWO. Women and Cultural Institutions
11. 4. Revisiting Arcadia: Women and Academies in Eighteenth-Century Italy 103
12. 5. "On Canvas and on the Page": Women Shaping Culture in Eighteenth-Century Venice 125
13. 6. "The Residence of the Arts": Angelica Kauffman's Place in Rome 151
14. PART THREE. Enlightened Sexualities
15. 7. Strange Births and Surprising Kin: The Castrates Tale 175
16. 8. Sex Without Sex: An Erotic Image of the Castrate Singer 203
17. 9. Anatomy of a Lesbian: Medicine, Pornography, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Italy 216
18. 10. As Who Dare Gaze the Sum Anna Morandi Manzolini's Wax Anatomies of the Male Reproductive System and Genitalia 251
19. PART FOUR. The Spectacle of Gender
20. 11. Between Modesty and Spectacle: Women and Science in Eighteenth-Century Italy 275
21. 12. "Monsters of Talent": Fame and Reputation of Women Improvisers in Arcadia 303
22. 13. Gender and Genre in the Religious Art of the Catholic Enlightenment 331
23. Notes 347
24. Contributors 457
25. Index 461