Women, space and ideal worlds in early modern Italian Utopian literature

我的研究考察了在早期现代意大利文学中，男性和女性撰写的乌托邦文本中，女性气质和女性空间的概念是如何被不同地构建的。传统的乌托邦主义以男性为中心，我主张在乌托邦文学的定义上进行重大转变，将女性的经历纳入其中，并使其合法化。通过女性史学、文学批评和空间理论的视角，我研究了男性创作的乌托邦如何构建“女性”形象，并将女性限制在精确的角色和空间中，然后揭示了女性作家如何通过创造“抵抗空间”来挑战这种描绘，提供了女权主义的另一种概念。

My research examines how ideas of femininity and female space are constructed differently in male- and female-authored uptopian texts in early modern Italian literature. Where traditional utopianism is male-centric, I argue for a critical shift in the definition of utopian literature to include and legitimise the female experience. Reading through the lens of female historiography, literary criticism and spatial theory, I examine how male-authored utopias construct an image of 'woman' and confine women to precise roles and spaces, before revealing how female authors challenge this portrayal by creating 'spaces of resistance' that offer an alternative conceptualisation of feminism.