The Discussion Of The Misogyny In Renaissance Italy

The concept of Women that influences Women’s realistic situation is about the radical Views and opinions of Women and reflect of women’s Living conditions and social status. From14century to17century, the Renaissance movement that originated in the Italy influenced the whole western world, it is described as a period of the world and the people were recognized, in which Life, thoughts and independent religion, art were not constrained and developed with freedom. However, in this period, in the shadow of the human nature, people contempt and suppressed women ideally. In this paper, the writer focuses the research perspectives on the ordinary women that were in Italy in this period, reveals Women’s humble family and social status, then analyzes the deep reason of this phenomenon and the limitations of traditional concept of the Renaissance that Booker hart represented in theory.Misogyny means hatred and the concept of misogyny is that the will of Women is weak, guilty, evil and dirty. The thought that belittle Women formed in the long history development process The relationships between men and women have bud in Aegean civilization, in Homer’s age, Homer’s Epic, a precious data understanding this stage, revealed the women’s subordinate status. The philosophers of ancient Greece, as Hippocrates, Xenophon, and Plato keen to look for the origin of Women’s dependent status from the theory of physiology, in the middle ages, the Christian theologians Began to preach "original sin", further down women to the edge of the society. The Renaissance movement brought various reconstruct for western society, yet the traditional relationship has not been reconstructed but reconfirmed, as a result, the concept of misogyny were further strengthened.In the first chapter, the writer analyzes the special reasons of misogyny that existed in Italy from three aspects:the origin of Ancient patriarchal paternalism, the Italian’s steadfast christen faith and the powerful influence of classical philosophy. We can find that the Misogyny is the deep thought tradition in the Renaissance Italy from the above analysis.Under the influence of the traditional concept, women lost themselves in the Renaissance Italy, in order to cater to the aesthetic of men, they decorated on the body and appearance excessively and paid more attention to their own virtue cultivation and appropriate behavior. Both in family and society, women in Renaissance Italy were still in a marginalized position.In conclusion, Italian women didn’t get equal status with men in Renaissance Movement, They were still defined as "secondary", which attached to the man. They were in a marginalized position in the family and society, therefore, the traditional view of the Renaissance represented by Jacob Burckhardt should be corrected. In history, the patriarchal society often averted the female’s self-awareness with the constructed historical memories, which forced women to internalize the disciplines and bound deeply, therefore, the awakening of female self-consciousness needs a long time.