Women & Gender in Early Mod Eur 3ed

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-521-69544-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 519 g

Reihe: New Approaches to European History

The third edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks' prize-winning survey of women and gender in early modern Europe. The updated edition features an entirely new chapter on gender and race in the colonial world; expanded coverage of eighteenth century developments including the Enlightenment; and enhanced discussions of masculinity, single women, same-sex relations, humanism, and women's religious roles within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. All of the chapters incorporate the newest scholarship and the book preserves the clear structure of previous editions with its tripartite division of mind, body, and spirit. Within this structure, other themes include the female life-cycle, women's economic roles, artistic creations, education and witchcraft. Coverage is geographically broad, including Russia, Scandinavia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian peninsula. This is essential reading for all students of early modern Europe and gender history and is accompanied by a website featuring extensive updated bibliographies, weblinks and primary source material.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Ideas and laws regarding women; Part I. Body: 2. The female life-cycle; 3. Women's economic role; Part II. Mind: 4. Literacy and learning; 5. Women and the creation of culture; Part III. Spirit: 6. Religion; 7. Witchcraft; 8. Gender and power; 9. Gender in the colonial world.

Über Autor(innen)

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.
Merry Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal. Her previous publications include Early Modern Europe 1450-1789 (2006), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 2nd edition (2000), Gender in History (2001), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (2000).