This new edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Critical Concepts in Women's History
This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book.
Kimberly Anne Coles has questioned 'the standard narrative of women writers as marginal within the operations of sixteenth-century English culture'. Coles argues that 'some women writers were instead central to the development of a ...
Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe.
Notes on Contributors Susan Broomhall is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia. She is author of Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France (Ashgate, 2002), Women's Medical Work in ...
In Gender and Authorship in the Sidney Circle, Mary Ellen Lamb suggests that “safe houses” owned by Sidney family members and friends enabled the Sidney women to write and provided havens for the circulation of their manuscripts.70 ...
This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women’s lives.
As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories ...
The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women's experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature.
An exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art, literature, and society.