Time, space, and women's lives in early modern Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tempi e spazi di vita femminile tra Medioevo ed età moderna.
Other Authors: Schutte, Anne Jacobson, Kuehn, Thomas, 1950-, Seidel Menchi, Silvana
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, [2001]
Series:Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 57.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Women's history and social history: are structures necessary? / Merry Wiesner-Hanks
  • The Querelle des femmes as a cultural studies paradigm / Margarete Zimmermann
  • Grammar in Arcadia / Gabriele Beck-Busse
  • The girl and the hourglass: periodization of women's lives in western preindustrial societies / Silvana Seidel Menchi
  • Getting back the dowry: Venice, c. 1360-1530 / Stanley Chojnacki
  • Daughters, mothers, wives, and widows: women as legal persons / Thomas Kuehn
  • Women married elsewhere: gender and citizenship in Italy / Julius Kirshner
  • "Saints" and "witches": in early modern Italy: stepsisters or strangers? / Anne Jacobson Schutte
  • The dimensions of the cloister: enclosure, constraint, and protection in seventeenth-century Italy / Francesca Medioli
  • The third status / Gabriella Zarri
  • "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 / Daniela Hacke
  • Becoming a mother in the: seventeenth century: the experience of a Roman noblewoman / Marina d'Amelia
  • Space, time, and the power of aristocratic wives in Yorkist and early Tudor England, 1450-1550 / Barbara J. Harris
  • Eighteenth-century marriage contracts: linking legal and gender history / Gunda Barth-Scalmani
  • En-gendering selfhood: defining differences and forging identities in early modern Europe / Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac
  • Construction of masculinity and male identity in personal testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552-1616) in his Memorial / Heide Wunder.