Francie is sure that if Lorenzo could only see how passionate she is about baking, he would help launch her career, and possibly marry her when she reaches legal age. Then Francie gets a chance to meet the sexy celebrity baker Lorenzo LaRue, whose toned pectorals inspire Francie as much as the baking tips she picks up from his TV show. Unable to stay focused, Francie's pastry-filled dreams are starting to slide.
But the new girl at school, Darlene, thinks Francie's obsession with baking is weird, she acts like Holly is her best friend, and she's somehow managed to steal Tate's attention away. She dreamed about the day she'd be famous and have her own baking show.
She had her own business as a weekend baker whose scones almost caused stampedes, a best friend named Holly and a deeply fulfilling crush on Tate Jarvis. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies that "marginalized" historical and fictional women, these essays counter scholarly and critical traditions that continue to exhibit patriarchal biases.Francie's life was almost perfect before the new girl showed up. Topics covered include representations of women in literature and art, the actual work done by women both inside and outside of the home, and the writings of women themselves. They explore the major conequences of patriarchy for women-their marginalization and lack of identity and power-and the ways in which individual women or groups of women broke, or in some cases deliberately circumvented, the rules that defined them as a secondary sex. Throughout, the essays focus on the structures of Renaissance patriarchy that organized power relations both in the state and in the family. In the process, the contributors enrich the emerging languages of and about women, gender, and sexual difference.
An outstanding array of scholars-literary critics, art critics, and historians-reexamines the role of women and their relations with men during the Renaissance. Juxtaposing the insights of feminism with those of marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, this unique collection creates new common ground for women's studies and Renaissance studies.
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