Karlsson Sjögren / Dermineur / Langum Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400-1800

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-74469-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

Almost exactly thirty years ago, Joan W. Scott, in a widely cited article, advocated the use of gender as a tool of historical analysis. Since then, many studies have used gender to consider the past. However, rather than developing new theories of gender that describe early modern contexts, historians often either avoid theory entirely or use gender theories which derive from particularly modern, political contexts. This book revisits the concept of gender within European History, 1400-1800. In the interest of cross-fertilization between gender and history, a selection of chapters proposes to engage with major nodes and concepts within gender theories and European history. This volume integrates contemporary theories of gender while also interrogating their relevance and their challenges when applied to different spaces and time spans. Finally, it highlights how medieval and early modern historians have contributed to strengthen, develop and theorize further the concept of gender, and what possibilities remain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karlsson Sjögren, Åsa

Dermineur, Elise M.

Langum, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Gender Theories in Premodern Studies

[Elise Dermineur, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren, Virginia Langum]

Part I: Patriarchy and Agency

1. Rethinking Patriarchy in Early Modern France

[Elise Dermineur]

2. Gender and the Underground Economy in Early Modern France

[Anne Montenach]

3. The Explanatory Power of Gender in Crime Patterns in Early Modern Towns

[Ariadne Schmidt and Manon van de Heijden]

Part II: Politics, Status, and Class

4. Machinic Desires: Feminist Reimaginings of Greco-Roman Women

[Anna Foka and Lewis Webb]

5. From Invisible to Visible: Poor Girls and Conceptions of Gender

[Åsa Karlsson Sjögren]

6. The Political Rhetoric of Gender in Sixteenth-Century Swedish History-Writing and the One-Sex Model

[Jonas Liliequist]

7. Making Feelings for Catherine de Medici: What Feminist Considerations on Performativity and Materiality Bring to Premodern Analyses of Gendered Emotions and Power

[Susan Broomhall]

Part III: Emotions and the Gendered Body

8. Sex and Gender in Pre-Modern Arabic Erotic Literature

[Pernilla Myrne]

9. Gendering Medieval Melancholy

[Virginia Langum]

10. Gendering Emotion: A Case Study of Early Modern Scotland

[Katie Barclay]

11. Ignorant Old Wives and Ambitious Young Scholars: Studying Gender in Religious Life of Early Modern Finland

[Raisa Maria Toivo]

Über Autor(innen)

Åsa Karlsson Sjögren is Professor of History at Umeå University.

Elise M. Dermineur is a Pro Futura Scientia IX Research fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala and at Umeå University.

Virginia Langum is reader in English literature at Umeå University and Pro Futura Scientia fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study.