Women, identities and communities in early modern Europe

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Women, identities and communities in early modern Europe
المساهمون: Broomhall, Susan., Tarbin, Stephanie.
بيانات النشر: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2008.
سنة النشر: 2008
وصف مادي: xiii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
سلاسل: Women and gender in the early modern world
Women and gender in the early modern world.
مصطلحات موضوعية: Women -- Europe -- Identity -- History., Women -- Europe -- Social conditions., Communities -- Europe -- History., Vrouwen., Identiteit., History.
الوصف: Addressing a key challenge facing feminist scholars today, this volume explores the tensions between shared gender identity and the myriad social differences structuring women's lives. By examining historical experiences of early modern women, these essays consider the possibilities for commonalities and the forces of division between women.
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: Real and imagined communities in the lives of women in seventeenth-century Ireland: identity and gender / Anne Laurence -- The abuse of history? identity politics, disordered identity and the "Really Real" in French cases of demonic possession / Sarah Feber -- "In my own house": the troubled connections between servant marriages, late-medieval English household communities and early modern historiography / Philippa Maddern -- Recusants, daughters and sisters in Christ: English nuns and their communities in the seventeenth century / Claire Walker -- "Charity is worth it when it looks that good": rural women and bequests of clothing in early modern England / Dolly MacKinnon -- Female magic and women's social relations in eighteenth-century Sweden / Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Gorgon of Augsburg / Lyndal Roper -- Giving birth at the magistrate's gate: single mothers in the early modern city / Laura Gowing -- Neighbourhood as female community in the life of Anne Dormer / Sara Mendelson -- A revolution correspondence: Elizabeth Packer Geddes and Elizabeth Burnet / Frances Harris -- Gendering the culture of honour at the fifteenth-century Burgundian court / Susan Broomhall -- Public identity and public memory: case studies of two Tudor women / Judith M. Richards -- In praise of queens: the public presentation of the virtuous consort in seventeenth-century Britain / Sybil Jack.
Original Identifier: ocm86117532
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-0-7546-6184-9
0-7546-6184-9
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-232) and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.011484443.7
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset
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ردمك:9780754661849
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