Title: CRISTINA LEÓN ALFAR, “Isabella’s Feminist Ethics in *Measure for Measure*”

Description: If you are in the NYC area, please come hear my talk:

“Isabella’s Feminist Ethics in Measure for Measure.”

In Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Isabella occupies an ethical space in Vienna’s culture of female exploitation, a practice she critiques throughout the play.  As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, she exercises a rhetorical expression of the truth, a right of all to speak that truth to power, and especially, the right of the citizen to correct the sovereign. Measure for Measure stages a parrhesiatic form of citizenship performed by Isabella who emerges as an active citizen, speaking from a dramatic and political ethical center which, is feminist.

Please note: this talk contains information about rape which may be triggering to some survivors

This event is co-sponsored with the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences, the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, and The Society for the Study of Women in Society.

Thursday, October 24th, 2019
6:00 -7:30 p.m.
Room 9205, Grad Center CUNY
For more information: http://bit.ly/CristinaAlfar2019

Date: 24 October 2019 6:00 pm EDT

Location: Graduate Center, CUNY, room 9205