Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World

From the Middle Ages to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-45672-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies.


Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bethencourt, Francisco

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Über Autor(innen)

Francisco Bethencourt, Ph.D. (1992), European University Institute, is Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London. He is the author of Racisms From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (2013) and The Inquisition: a Global History, 1478-1834 (2009). He is completing a new monograph on The New Christian Trading Elite, 1497-1773.