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Marvelous Hairy Girls : The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds by Merry Wiesner-Hanks (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300127332
ISBN-139780300127331
eBay Product ID (ePID)71074204
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameMarvelous Hairy Girls : the Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectWomen, Pathophysiology, Modern / 16th Century, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Europe / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorMerry Wiesner-Hanks
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16.9 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-044089
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Merry Wiesner-Hanks...uses art, historical records, and scientific treatises to piece together the first comprehensive account of the Gonzaleses'' lives and times."-Ann Landi, ARTnews, "Wiesner-Hanks uses her subjects to explore Renaissance notions of the marvelous and the miraculous."- The New Yorker , " The Marvelous Hairy Girls is a wonderful book, meticulously researched, witty and beautifully written. It takes the reader on a journey into the ordinary world of marvelous monsters, strange women and astonishing events. Wiesner-Hanks offers us a very different glimpse into the sixteenth century and its inhabitants, which ultimately offers us a different vision of ourselves. There is something to stimulate and fascinate on every page." -Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine, "Merry Wiesner-Hanks...uses art, historical records, and scientific treatises to piece together the first comprehensive account of the Gonzaleses' lives and times."-Ann Landi, ARTnews, "Wiesner-Hanks uses her subjects to explore Renaissance notions of the marvelous and the miraculous."- The New Yorker, "The Marvelous Hairy Girls is a wonderful book, meticulously researched, witty and beautifully written. It takes the reader on a journey into the ordinary world of marvelous monsters, strange women and astonishing events. Wiesner-Hanks offers us a very different glimpse into the sixteenth century and its inhabitants, which ultimately offers us a different vision of ourselves. There is something to stimulate and fascinate on every page." - Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine, "Merry Wiesner-Hanks...uses art, historical records, and scientific treatises to piece together the first comprehensive account of the Gonzaleses'' lives and times."�Ann Landi, ARTnews, "Wiesner-Hanks uses her subjects to explore Renaissance notions of the marvelous and the miraculous."�The New Yorker, "Wiesner-Hanks uses her subjects to explore Renaissance notions of the marvelous and the miraculous."-The New Yorker, " The Marvelous Hairy Girls is a wonderful book, meticulously researched, witty and beautifully written. It takes the reader on a journey into the ordinary world of marvelous monsters, strange women and astonishing events. Wiesner-Hanks offers us a very different glimpse into the sixteenth century and its inhabitants, which ultimately offers us a different vision of ourselves. There is something to stimulate and fascinate on every page." - Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine, " The Marvelous Hairy Girls is a wonderful book, meticulously researched, witty and beautifully written. It takes the reader on a journey into the ordinary world of marvelous monsters, strange women and astonishing events. Wiesner-Hanks offers us a very different glimpse into the sixteenth century and its inhabitants, which ultimately offers us a different vision of ourselves. There is something to stimulate and fascinate on every page." - Barbara Creed, author of The Monstrous-Feminine
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.4087/094
SynopsisThis book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy. Amazingly, the Gonzales sisters were not mocked or shunned, but were welcomed in the courts of Europe, spending much of their lives among nobles, musicians, and artists. Their double identity as humans and beasts made them intriguing, and the girls and their father were the subjects not only of medical investigations but also of a considerable number of portraits, some of which still hang in European castles today. Using the Gonzales family as a lens, historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks examines their varied and wondrous times. The story of this family connects with every important change of their era--political and religious violence, colonial conquest, new forms of scholarship and science--and also provides insights into the complex relationships between beastliness, monstrosity, and gender in early modern life., This book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy. Amazingly, the Gonzales sisters were not mocked or shunned, but were welcomed in the courts of Europe, spending much of their lives among nobles, musicians, and artists. Their double identity as humans and beasts made them intriguing, and the girls and their father were the subjects not only of medical investigations but also of a considerable number of portraits, some of which still hang in European castles today.Using the Gonzales family as a lens, historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks examines their varied and wondrous times. The story of this family connects with every important change of their erapolitical and religious violence, colonial conquest, new forms of scholarship and scienceand also provides insights into the complex relationships between beastliness, monstrosity, and gender in early modern life."
LC Classification NumberHQ1075.5.E85W54 2009
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