Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)

Description

"Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her study; she summarizes the latest scholarship in her chapters and bibliographies, adding new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the female life-cycle, literacy, women's economic role, artistic creation, female piety - and witchcraft - and the relationship between gender and power. The structure of the first edition remains: it reflects the tripartite division of the self - mind, body, and spirit - traditional in western philosophy. Coverage is geographically broad; the second edition includes longer discussions of the border areas, such as Russia, Ireland, and the Iberian peninsula. This book will be of importance for courses in gender history, early modern Europe, and comparative history."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Ideas about women, particularly those of educated men, are in many ways the easiest thing to investigate when analyzing the experience of women in any culture.

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Other Editions

• Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)PaperbackCambridge University Press2000-07-03
• Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History)HardcoverCambridge University Press2000-07-17