The Youth of Early Modern Women
Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, soci...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2018]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424494506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction / Cohen, Elizabeth S. / Reeves, Margaret
- Part 1. Concepts and Representations
- 1. 'A Prospect of Flowers' / Reeves, Margaret
- 2. A Roving Woman / Morris, Sarah
- 3. 'She is but a girl' / McNabb, Jennifer
- 4. Flight and Confinement / Holler, Jacqueline
- 5. Harlots and Camp Followers / Andersson, Christiane
- Part 2. Self-Representations: Life-Writing and Letters
- 6. Three Sisters of Carmen / Mujica, Barbara
- 7. Elite English Girlhood in Early Modern Ireland / Eckerle, Julie A.
- 8. Young Women Negotiating Fashion in Early Modern Florence / Moran, Megan
- 9. 'Is it possible that my sister [...] has had a baby?' / Couchman, Jane
- Part 3. Training for Adulthood
- 10. Malleable Youth / Franco, Alessandra
- 11. The Material Culture of Female Youth in Bologna, 1550-1600 / Robinson, Michele Nicole
- 12. Becoming a Woman in the Dutch Republic / Tilburg, Marja van
- Part 4. Courtship and Becoming Sexual
- 13. Straying and Led Astray / Cohen, Elizabeth S.
- 14. A Room of Their Own / Hubbard, Eleanor
- 15. In Search of a 'Remedy' / Hardwick, Julie
- Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works
- Index
