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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History Features essays by leading scholars in the fields of women's history and gender history Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors 1. Gender, Change and Periodisation: Alexandra Shepard (University of Glasgow) and Garthine Walker (Cardiff University) 2. Somatic Styles of the Early Middle Ages ( c . 600-900): Lynda L. Coon (University of Arkansas) 3. Gendering the History of Women's Healthcare: Monica H. Green (Arizona State University) 4. The Gender of Europe's Commercial Economy, 1200-1700: Martha Howell (Columbia University) 5. Do Women Need the Renaissance?: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 6. Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis: Jeanne Boydston (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 7. Change and the Corporeal in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gender History: Or, Can Cultural History Be Rigorous?: Dror Wahrman (Indiana University) 8. Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India: Padma Anagol (Cardiff University) 9. The Unseamed Picture: Conflicting Narratives of Women in the Modern European Past: Lynn Abrams (Glasgow University) 10. The Gendered Genealogy of Political Religions Theory: Kevin Passmore (Cardiff University) 11. Forgetting the Past: Judith M. Bennett (University of Southern California) Index ...
