European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries /

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This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Monagle, Clare (Autor), James, Carolyn (Autor), Garrioch, David (Autor), Caine, Barbara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press
Temas:
Letter writing > Europe > History.
Women > Europe > Social conditions > History.
Femmes > Europe > Conditions sociales.
Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500.
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
Gender studies: women.
HISTORY / Medieval.
HISTORY / Renaissance.
HISTORY / Modern / General.
Letter writing
Women > Social conditions
Gender studies: women and girls.
Sociology: family and relationships.
Social and cultural history.
Europe
History, Art History, and Archaeology
HIS
Diachronic
Gender and Sexuality Studies
GEND & SEXU
Media Studies
MEDIA
Sociology and Social History
SOC & HIS
Epistolarity, Gender, Family, Women
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Authority and the Self: the Letters of Medieval Women
  • 2. The Rise of Vernacular Letter-writing
  • 3. The Triumph of the Familiar Letter
  • 4. Intimate Letters
  • Epilogue: Women's Letters come to an End
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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