Women's Roles in the Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Meg L. Brown, Kari McBride Klappentext For the first time, a content-rich survey on Renaissance women for students and the general public is available. The story of the Renaissance has usually been told from the elite male perspective. Here, the lives of women and girls from a wide range of classes, religions, and countries in Europe take center stage. Women had a significant impact on the economy, social structures, and the culture of the Renaissance, despite the constraints on their exercise of power, lack of opportunities, enforced dependence, and exclusion from politics, government, science, law, banking, and more. Women's Roles in the Renaissance examines the attitudes and practices that shaped the varied roles of women then, but also the important ways women shaped the world in which they lived. The focus is on both the ideas that circulated about women and on the difference between representations of them and their everyday life experiences.The narrative draws from a wide variety of sources on every aspect of women's lives. Narrative topical chapters cover women and education, the law, work, politics, religion, literature, the arts, and pleasures. Numerous women are profiled, and a plethora of quotations and examples of their work provides a sense of their spirit. Many period illustrations are included that highlight the text. This will prove to be a most valuable one-volume resource on a high-interest topic. Zusammenfassung For the first time! a content-rich survey on Renaissance women for students and the general public is available. Women's Roles in the Renaissance examines the attitudes and practices that shaped the varied roles of women then! but also the important ways women shaped the world in which they lived. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword Acknowledgments Illustrations Timeline Introduction: Women and the Renaissance Women and Education Women under the Law Women and Work Women and Politics Women and Religion Women and Literature Women and the Arts Women and Pleasures Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Kari Boyd, Meg Brown, Meg L. Brown, Meg Lota Brown, Meg Lota/ McBride Brown, Kari McBride, Kari Boyd Mcbride, Karin McBride
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2005
• EAN: 9780313322105
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32210-5
• No. of pages: 335
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Women's Roles Through History; Women's Roles through History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, CE period up to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Gender studies: women, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Women's Studies, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval