Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe

Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Tovio.

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This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomou...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Muravyeva, Marianna (Editor), Tovio, Raisa Maria (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Routledge, [2013]
Series:Routledge research in gender and history ; 14.
Subjects:
Gender identity > Europe > History.
Women > Europe > History.
Men > Europe > History.
Gender identity.
Men.
Women.
Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo
  • Historiography and the politics of gender
  • From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti
  • The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen
  • "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday
  • Female spirituality, religion and gender identities
  • A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
  • Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen
  • Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku
  • Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises
  • Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
  • Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo
  • Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash
  • Laws, genders and deviancies
  • Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen
  • The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki
  • Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index.

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