1st Edition

Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World

Edited By Merry Wiesner-Hanks Copyright 2018
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant... Read more
Notes on Contributors, Introduction , PART I Temporality and Materiality, PART II Frameworks and Taxonomy of Time, PART III Embodied Time, Index

Biography

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, and the author or editor of more than 30 books that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.

Scholars, educators, and students in the fields of time studies, gender and women’s studies, and early modern literary and cultural studies will find this volume to be
an essential critical companion.

W. Scott Howard, Professor and Editor, Denver Quarterly and FIVES, Department of English & Literary Arts, University of Denver, USA, in KRON 25.1 (2025).