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Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muravyeva, Marianna
Otros Autores: Toivo, Raisa Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge research in gender and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomous paring of masculinity and femininity (or male and female). The emphasis on differences has been largely based on the research of such topics as premarital sex, religious deviance, rape and violence; these are topics that were, in the early modern society, criminal or at least easily marginalizi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:9781136275395
1136275398