The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters : gender, transgression, adolescence

The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters gender, transgression, adolescence

The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English cult...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higginbotham, Jennifer (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2013.
Edinburgh : [2013]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Girls.
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Literature > History and criticism
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422288306719
Table of Contents:
  • 'A wentche, a gyrle, a damsell' : defining early modern girlhood
  • Roaring girls and unruly women : producing femininities
  • Female infants and the engendering of humanity
  • Where are the girls in English renaissance drama?
  • Voicing girlhood : women's life writing and narratives of childhood
  • Epilogue : mass-produced languages and the end of touristic choices.

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