Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe,9780943549903

Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

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ISBN13: 9780943549903
ISBN10: 0943549906
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): Truman State Univ Pr
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Summary

This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women's lives. It moves beyond men's prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Thomas Kuehn
Anne Jacobson Schutte
Part 1
Women's History and Social History: Are Structures Necessary?
3(14)
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
The Querelle des Femmes as a Cultural Studies Paradigm
17(12)
Margarete Zimmermann
Grammar in Arcadia
29(12)
Gabriele Beck-Busse
The Girl and the Hourglass: Periodization of Women's Lives in Western Preindustrial Societies
41(36)
Silvana Seidel Menchi
Part 2
Getting Back the Dowry: Venic, c. 1360-1530
77(20)
Stanley Chojnacki
Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows: Women as legal Persons
97(20)
Thomas Kuehn
Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Italy
117(36)
Julius Kirshner
Part 3
``Saints'' and ``Witches'': in Early Modern Italy: Stepsisters or Strangers?
153(12)
Anne Jacobson Schutte
The Dimensions of the Cloister: Enclosure, Constraint, and Protection in Seventeenth-Century Italy
165(16)
Francesca Medioli
The Third Status
181(22)
Gabriella Zarri
Part 4
``Non lo volevo per marito: in modo alcuno'': Forced Marriages, Generational Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580-1680
203(20)
Daniela Hacke
Becoming a Mother in the: Seventeenth Century: The Experience of a Roman Noblewoman
223(22)
Marina d'Amelia
Space, Time, and the Power of Aristocratic Wives in Yorkist and Early Tudor England, 1450-1550
245(20)
Barbara J. Harris
Eighteenth-Century Marriage Contracts: Linking Legal and Gender History
265(20)
Gunda Barth-Scalmani
Part 5
En-Gendering Selfhood: Defining Differences and Forging Identities in Early Modern Europe
285(20)
Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac
Construction of Masculinity and Male Identity in Personal Testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552-1616) in His Memorial
305(20)
Heide Wunder
About the Contributors 325(4)
Index 329

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