Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters gender transgression, adolescence
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2013.
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745133206719 |
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.
