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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe: 1500 - 1700 book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe 1500 - 1700

By Penny Richards, Jessica Munns Copyright 2003
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns... Read more
CONTENTSList o f Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList o f ContributorsIntroductionJessica Munns and Penny Richards 1 Gender and sexuality in early modem England 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries 3 'So was theys castell layd wyde open': Battle for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner 4 The importnace of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d' Angouleme 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effemiinacy and manliness at the Jacobean court Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesus, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent 9 Allarme to England!; Gender and militarism in early modern England 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peace Notes Select Bibliography Index

Biography

Jessica Munns is Professor of Literature at the University of Denver. Her previous books include Restoration Politics and Drama: The Plays of Thomas Otway, 1675-1683 (1995), with Gita Rajan she has co-edited A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice (1996). Penny Richards is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Gloucestershire. She has published widely on early modern history and has co-edited with Jessica Munns, The Clothes that Wear Us: Dressing and Transgressing, Essays in Eighteenth-Century Culture (1999).

'This is a very clear introduction to the concept of gender, which could be usefully recommended to all undergraduates studying early modern England.'

Cordelia Beattie, European History Quarterly

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