Is the Decameron a feminist work? Cover Image

Je li Dekameron feminističko djelo?
Is the Decameron a feminist work?

Author(s): Roman Karlović
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Ženska infoteka
Keywords: Middle Ages; Feminism; Boccaccio; Decameron

Summary/Abstract: The Decameron is a pathogenic product of an actual misogynic erudite and a patriarchal Italian man of the late Middle Ages such was don Giovanni. The narration of the Decameron offers an illusion of some kind of a "feminist" Boccaccio, due particulary to the alibis such as an alleged liberation of the woman trapped inside the late Middle Ages' legislative discoursive practices.

  • Issue Year: 2003
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 14-18
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Croatian
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