ISBN:
9781935503729
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Holderby, Shawndra L. [Rezension von: Schutte, Anne Jacobson, Time, Space and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe] 2002
Series Statement:
SCE&S v.57
Parallel Title:
Print version Schutte, Anne Jacobson Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe
DDC:
305.40902
Keywords:
Women - Europe - History
Abstract:
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women's lives. It moves beyond men's prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency
Abstract:
Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Women's History and Social History -- The Querelles des Femmes as a Cultural Studies Paradigm -- Grammar in Arcadia -- The Girl and the Hourglass -- Part 2 -- Getting Back the Dowry -- Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows -- Women Married Elsewhere -- Part 3 -- "Saints" and "Witches" in Early Modern Italy -- The Dimensions of the Cloister -- The Third Status -- Part 4 -- "Non lo volevo per marito in modo alcuno" -- Becoming a Mother in the Seventeenth Century -- Space, Time, and the Power of Aristorcratic Wives ... -- Eighteenth-Century Marriage Contracts -- Part 5 -- En-Gendering Selfhood -- Construction of Masculinity and Male Identity in Personal Testimonies -- About the Contributors -- Index
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