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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Higginbotham, Jennifer, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press 2013.
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745133206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • '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.