Masculinities, Violence, Childhood - Attending to Early Modern Women--And Men

Informationen zum Autor Amy E. Leonard is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. Karen L. Nelson is associate director of the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. Klappentext This interdisciplinary volume examines the role that gender plays in the early modern period and explores the shift in scholarly understanding of women's lives and works when they are placed alongside nuanced considerations of men's lives and works. With material drawing from the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women-and Men symposium, the varied contributions consider women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean, and the Islamic world. Zusammenfassung "Sixth symposium sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies! [University of Maryland]"--Pref. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Attending to Early Modern Women-and Men Part 2 Part I. Theorizing Early Modern Masculinity and Maleness Chapter 3 Keynote Address: Showing the Heart: Love, Friendship, and Anatomy in Early Modern Portraiture Chapter 4 Manhood, Patriarchy, and Gender in Early Modern History Chapter 5 Hymeneal Instruction Chapter 6 Workshop Summaries 1-9 Part 7 Part II. Childhood Chapter 9 Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Gender Difference in German Primary School Education Chapter 10 The Virgin's Body and Early Modern Surgeons Chapter 10 All You Need Is Love: Music, Romance, and Adolescent Recreation in Sixteenth-Century France Chapter 11 Workshop Summaries 10-15 Part 12 Part III. Violence Chapter 13 Bosch's Iron Age Chapter 14 English Child-Murder News and the Culture of Equity Chapter 15 Violence, Gender, and Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic Chapter 16 Workshop Summaries 16-23 Part 17 Part IV. Pedagogies Chapter 18 Telling Tales: Women in the Early Modern Arab World Chapter 20 Workshop Summaries 24-30 Chapter 20 Masculinity, Manliness, and Mediocrity: The Case of Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541-85)...

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• Authors: Amy E. Leonard, Amy E. Nelson Leonard
• Assisted by: Amy E. Leonard (Editor), Leonard Amy E. (Editor), Karen L. Nelson (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9781611490183
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-018-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, HISTORY / Latin America / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Sociology: family & relationships, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women & girls, Gender Studies: Men, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Gender studies: men & boys, Literary studies: ancient & classical, Gender and Women's History