Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

, by Schutte, Anne Jacobson; Kuehn, Thomas; Menchi, Silvana Seidel; Seidel Menchi, Silvana

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ISBN: 9780943549903 | 0943549906
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2001

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This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women's lives. It moves beyond men's prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.

Introduction

vii

Thomas Kuehn

Anne Jacobson Schutte

Part 1

Women's History and Social History: Are Structures Necessary?

(14)

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

The Querelle des Femmes as a Cultural Studies Paradigm

(12)

Margarete Zimmermann

Grammar in Arcadia

(12)

Gabriele Beck-Busse

The Girl and the Hourglass: Periodization of Women's Lives in Western Preindustrial Societies

(36)

Silvana Seidel Menchi

Part 2

Getting Back the Dowry: Venic, c. 1360-1530

(20)

Stanley Chojnacki

Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows: Women as legal Persons

(20)

Thomas Kuehn

Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Italy

117

(36)

Julius Kirshner

Part 3

``Saints'' and ``Witches'': in Early Modern Italy: Stepsisters or Strangers?

153

(12)

Anne Jacobson Schutte

The Dimensions of the Cloister: Enclosure, Constraint, and Protection in Seventeenth-Century Italy

165

(16)

Francesca Medioli

The Third Status

181

(22)

Gabriella Zarri

Part 4

``Non lo volevo per marito: in modo alcuno'': Forced Marriages, Generational Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580-1680

203

(20)

Daniela Hacke

Becoming a Mother in the: Seventeenth Century: The Experience of a Roman Noblewoman

223

(22)

Marina d'Amelia

Space, Time, and the Power of Aristocratic Wives in Yorkist and Early Tudor England, 1450-1550

245

(20)

Barbara J. Harris

Eighteenth-Century Marriage Contracts: Linking Legal and Gender History

265

(20)

Gunda Barth-Scalmani

Part 5

En-Gendering Selfhood: Defining Differences and Forging Identities in Early Modern Europe

285

(20)

Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac

Construction of Masculinity and Male Identity in Personal Testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552-1616) in His Memorial

305

(20)

Heide Wunder

About the Contributors

325

(4)

Index

329

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Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

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