Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
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Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Merry E Wiesner
This is a major new edition of the most stimulating and authoritative textbook on early modern women currently available. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she summarises the very latest scholarship in her chapters and bibliographies, adding new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the female life-cycle, literacy, women's economic role, artistic creation, female piety - and witchcraft - and the relationship between gender and power. The clear and helpful structure of the first edition remains: it reflects the tripartite division of the self - mind, body, and spirit - traditional in western philosophy. Coverage is geographically broad; the second edition includes longer discussions of the border areas, such as Russia, Ireland, and the Iberian peninsula. Accessible, engrossing, and lively, this book will be of central importance for courses in gender history, early modern Europe, and comparative history.
'Updated and expanded since 1993, it provides an admirably clear and concise introduction to the field, investigating all aspects of women's lives between 1500 and 1750' The English Historical Review
'… there is no doubt that this is a groundbreaking book … Merry Wiesner engages with a range of primary materials in a confident yet thoughtful manner.' Brill
'… there is no doubt that this is a groundbreaking book … Merry Wiesner engages with a range of primary materials in a confident yet thoughtful manner.' Brill
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.: - Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Chair, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979. She has published WORKING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE GERMANY (Rutgers, 1986) as well as numerous articles on women and the Reformation and urban social history. She is co-author of DISCOVERING THE GLOBAL PAST (2012), DISCOVERING THE WESTERN PAST (2008), DISCOVERING THE MEDIEVAL PAST (2003), DISCOVERING THE ANCIENT PAST (2005), DISCOVERING THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD (2005), and BECOMING VISIBLE: WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1998). She is also the General Editor of the PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION series.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521778220 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521778220 |
| Title | Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe |
| Author | Merry E Wiesner |
| Series | New Approaches To European History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2000-07-03 |
| Number of pages | 342 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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