Gender and Change Agency, Chronology and

Through a collection of essays by leading scholars on women's history and gender history, Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation questions conventional chronologies while reassessing the relationship between gender, agency, continuity and change. Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. For example, whether the European Renaissance can be classified as the same period of great cultural advance when viewed from the perspective of women Offers innovative historiographical and theoretical reflection on approaches to gender, agency, and change

Alexandra Shepard teaches Early Modern History at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of several articles on the history of masculinity and Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (2003).

Garthine Walker is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff. She has published on various aspects of gender and crime and is the author of Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (2003).

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Gender, Change and Periodisation	p. 1
Somatic Styles of the Early Middle Ages (c.600-900)	p. 13
Gendering the History of Women's Healthcare	p. 43
The Gender of Europe's Commercial Economy, 1200-1700	p. 83
Do Women Need the Renaissance?	p. 109
Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis	p. 133
Change and the Corporeal in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gender History: Or, Can Cultural History Be Rigorous?	p. 166
Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India	p. 191
The Unseamed Picture: Conflicting Narratives of Women in the Modern European Past	p. 222
The Gendered Genealogy of Political Religions Theory	p. 242
Forgetting the Past	p. 273
Index	p. 284
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