Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830
Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" – those on the receiving end of education – to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.
Author Susan Dalton demonstrates how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity to est...
Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830, examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" – those on the receiving end of education – to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it.
Author Susan Dalton demonstrates how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity to est...