New Approaches to European History

Informationen zum Autor Merry Wiesner-Hanks is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the co-editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal. Her previous publications include Early Modern Europe 1450-1789 (2006), Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, 2nd edition (2000), Gender in History (2001), and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World (2000). Klappentext 3rd edition. This revised prize-winning survey of women and gender in early modern Europe now includes an entirely new chapter on gender and the colonial world! and links to an accompanying website. Zusammenfassung The third edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks' prize-winning book incorporates the newest scholarship and features a new chapter on gender and race in the colonial world; expanded coverage of eighteenth century developments including the Enlightenment; and enhanced discussions of masculinity! single women! same-sex relations! humanism! and women's religious roles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Ideas and laws regarding women; Part I. Body: 2. The female life-cycle; 3. Women's economic role; Part II. Mind: 4. Literacy and learning; 5. Women and the creation of culture; Part III. Spirit: 6. Religion; 7. Witchcraft; 8. Gender and power; 9. Gender in the colonial world.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. (University of Wisconsin Wiesner-Hanks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 04.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521695442
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69544-2
• Seiten: 352
• Serien: New Approaches to European History; New Approaches to European History
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte