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Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany Merry E. Wiesner

Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany By Merry E. Wiesner

Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany by Merry E. Wiesner


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This volume brings together 11 essays which consider three main issues in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work.

Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany Summary

Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany: Essays by Merry E. Wiesner by Merry E. Wiesner

This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work. The final chapter, specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental questions: Did women have a Reformation?; What effects did the development of capitalism have on women?; and Do the concepts 'Renaissance' and 'Early Modern' apply to women's experience? The book concludes with an extensive bibliographical essay exploring both English and German scholarship.

Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany Reviews

... a book that is at once an introduction to and avindication of women's history over the past twenty years; an outline of women in early modern Germany; and a manifesto for future research in women's history. The historical association, 1999

About Merry E. Wiesner

Wiesner, Merry E.

Table of Contents

General Introduction.
1. Women's Defence of Their Public Role.
2. From Spiritual Virginity to Family as Calling.
3. Ideology Meets the Empire: Reformed Convents and the Reformation.
4. The Reformation of the Women.
5. Frail, Weak, and Helpless: Women's Legal Position in Theory and Reality.
6. Paternalism in Practice: The Control of Servants and Prostitutes in Early Modern German Cities.
7. War, Work, and Wealth: The Bases of Citizenship in Early Modern German Cities.
8. Spinning Out Capital: Women's Work in the Early Modern Economy.
9. Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany.
10. Wandervogels and Women: Journeymen's Concepts of Masculinity in Early Modern Germany.
11. Concluding Essay: Reassessing, Transforming, Complicating: Two Decades of Early Modern Women's History

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NLS9780582292826
9780582292826
0582292824
Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany: Essays by Merry E. Wiesner by Merry E. Wiesner
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1997-10-01
240
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