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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in gender and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why and How Gender Matters?; Part I Historiography and the Politics of Gender; 1 From Women's Oppression to Male Anxiety: The Concept of 'Patriarchy' in the Historiography of Early Modern Europe; 2 The Metaphysics of Gender in Christine de Pizan's Thought; 3 'That Women Are But Men's Shadows': Examining Gender, Violence and Criminality in Early Modern Britain; Part II Female Spirituality, Religion, and Gender Identities.
- 4 A Good Wife?: Demonic Possession and Discourses of Gender in Late Medieval Culture5 Between Martyrdom and Everyday Pragmatism: Gender, Family, and Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany; 6 Women's Sexuality between Legal Prescription and Ecclesiastical Control in the Romanian Principalities in the 18th Century; Part III Gendered Witches and Nordic Patriarchal Compromises; 7 Women, Witches, and the Town Courts of Ribe: Ideas of the Gendered Witch in Early Modern Denmark; 8 Male Witches and Masculinity in Early Modern Finnish Witchcraft Trials.
- 9 Gendering Moral Crimes in Early Modern England and Europe-Blasphemy the Mirror Image of Witchcraft?Part IV Laws, Genders, and Deviancies; 10 Gendered Suicide in Early Modern Sweden and Finland; 11 Responsibility of a Seducer?: Men, Women, and Breach of Promise in Early Modern Swedish Legislation; 12 Personalizing Homosexuality and Masculinity in Early Modern Russia; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index.