Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe
1500 - 1700
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2017
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-1-138-47549-6 (ISBN)
Description
Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past. The authors of this collection explore how issues of sexuality, class, nationalism and colonialism informed the ways in which women were represented and continue to be represented in history. They show the ways in which women have been excluded, silenced and misrepresented in stories of the past, and how women's lives have been distorted or simplified in conventional historical accounts. Together, they suggest fresh ways of approaching women's history, and use examples of work in new areas of research such as women's health and leisure in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the various methodologies being proposed.
Reviews / Votes
'This is a very clear introduction to the concept of gender, which could be usefully recommended to all undergraduates studying early modern England.'Cordelia Beattie, European History Quarterly
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-47549-6 (9781138475496)
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Persons
Jessica Munns is Professor of Literature at the University of Denver. Her previous books include Restoration Politics and Drama: The Plays of Thomas Otway, 1675-1683 (1995), with Gita Rajan she has co-edited A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice (1996). Penny Richards is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Gloucestershire. She has published widely on early modern history and has co-edited with Jessica Munns, The Clothes that Wear Us: Dressing and Transgressing, Essays in Eighteenth-Century Culture (1999).
Content
Acknowledgements, IntroductionJessica Munns and Penny Richards 1 Gender and sexuality in early modem England 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries 3 'So was theys castell layd wyde open': Battle for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner 4 The importnace of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d' Angouleme 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effemiinacy and manliness at the Jacobean court Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesus, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent 9 Allarme to England!; Gender and militarism in early modern England 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peace Notes Select Bibliography Index