Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (New Approaches to European History, Series Number 20) - Softcover

Wiesner, Merry E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521778220 ISBN 13: 9780521778220

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the female life cycle, literacy, women's economic role, artistic creation, female piety--and witchcraft--and the relationship between gender and power. Accessible, engrossing, and lively, this book will be of central importance for those interested in gender history, early modern Europe, and comparative history.

About this title

About the Author:

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).

Review:

"...a clear and stimulating textbook that introduces undergraduates and general readers to the topic of early modern European women and to the extensive literature available in English on various dimensions of their lives....Wiesner's command of this scholarship and the clarity of her analysis make this the best single volume on the topic." Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521778220
• ISBN 13: 9780521778220
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 342