Author

Publication

1998 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL691797M
  • ISBN-100674383214
  • OCLC Control Number37862666
  • Library of Congress Control Number97038959
  • Goodreads541835
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  • LibraryThing764694

Classifications

  • DDC305.4/0943
  • LCCHQ1623 .W8513 1998

Description

Heide Wunder shows how the history of women and the history of gender relations can provide crucial insights into how societies organize themselves and provide resources for political action. She observes actual circumstances as well as the normative rules that were supposed to guide women's lives. We learn what skills were necessary to take charge of households, what people ate, how they furnished their homes, what birth control measures were available, what role women played in peasant protest. Using sources as diverse as memoirs, wedding and funeral sermons, novels, and chronicles, and including a wealth of demographic information, Wunder reveals a new image of early modern women and provides a rich interpretation of early modern Europe.

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