The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Editors: Poska, Allyson M., Couchman, Jane and McIver, Katherine A.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Single-User Purchase Price: $175.00
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ISBN: 978-1-4094-1817-7
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count: 24
Book Status: Available
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This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine womens lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction - Allyson M. Poska; Jane Couchman; Katherine A. McIver
  • PART I: RELIGION
  • 1 The Permeable Cloister - Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
  • 2 Literature by Women Religious in Early Modem Catholic Europe and the New World - Alison Weber
  • 3 Convent Creativity - Marilyn Dunn
  • 4 Convent Music: An Examination - Kimberlyn Montford
  • 5 Lay Patronage and Religious Art - Catherine E. King
  • 6 Female Religious Communities Beyond the Convent - Susan E. Dinan
  • 7 Protestant Movements - Merry Wiesner-Hanks
  • 8 Protestant Women's Voices - Jane Couchman
  • PART II: EMBODIED LIVES
  • 9 Maternity - Lianne McTavish
  • 10 Upending Patriarchy: Rethinking Marriage and Family in Early Modem Europe - Allyson M. Poska
  • 11 The Economics and Politics of Marriage - Jutta Gisela Sperling
  • 12 Before the Law - Lyndon Warner
  • 13 Permanent Impermanence: Continuity and Rupture in Early Modem Sexuality Studies - Katherine Crawford
  • 14 Women and Work - Janine M. Lanza
  • 15 Old Women in Early Modem Europe: Age as an Analytical Category - Lynn Botelho
  • 16 Women on the Margins - Elizabeth S. Cohen
  • 17 Women and Political Power in Early Modem Europe - Carole Levin; Alicia Meyer
  • PART III: CULTURAL PRODUCTION
  • 18 The Querelle des femmes - Julie D. Campbell
  • 19 Intellectual Women in Early Modem Europe - Diana Robin
  • 20 Women in Science and Medicine, 1400-1800 - Alisha Rankin
  • 21 Early Modem Women Artists - Sheila ffolliott
  • 22 Beyond Isabella and Beyond: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Early Modem Europe - Sheryl E. Reiss
  • 23 Material Culture: Consumption, Collecting and Domestic Goods - Katherine A. McIver
  • 24 Images of Women - Andrea Pearson
  • 25 Women, Gender, and Music - Linda Phyllis Austern