Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

by Schutte, Anne Jacobson; Kuehn, Thomas; Menchi, Silvana Seidel; Seidel Menchi, Silvana

• ISBN13: 9780943549903
• ISBN10: 0943549906
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr

Summary

This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women's lives. It moves beyond men's prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Thomas Kuehn
Anne Jacobson Schutte
Part 1
Women's History and Social History: Are Structures Necessary?	3	(14)
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
The Querelle des Femmes as a Cultural Studies Paradigm	17	(12)
Margarete Zimmermann
Grammar in Arcadia	29	(12)
Gabriele Beck-Busse
The Girl and the Hourglass: Periodization of Women's Lives in Western Preindustrial Societies	41	(36)
Silvana Seidel Menchi
Part 2
Getting Back the Dowry: Venic, c. 1360-1530	77	(20)
Stanley Chojnacki
Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows: Women as legal Persons	97	(20)
Thomas Kuehn
Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Italy	117	(36)
Julius Kirshner
Part 3
``Saints'' and ``Witches'': in Early Modern Italy: Stepsisters or Strangers?	153	(12)
Anne Jacobson Schutte
The Dimensions of the Cloister: Enclosure, Constraint, and Protection in Seventeenth-Century Italy	165	(16)
Francesca Medioli
The Third Status	181	(22)
Gabriella Zarri
Part 4
``Non lo volevo per marito: in modo alcuno'': Forced Marriages, Generational Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580-1680	203	(20)
Daniela Hacke
Becoming a Mother in the: Seventeenth Century: The Experience of a Roman Noblewoman	223	(22)
Marina d'Amelia
Space, Time, and the Power of Aristocratic Wives in Yorkist and Early Tudor England, 1450-1550	245	(20)
Barbara J. Harris
Eighteenth-Century Marriage Contracts: Linking Legal and Gender History	265	(20)
Gunda Barth-Scalmani
Part 5
En-Gendering Selfhood: Defining Differences and Forging Identities in Early Modern Europe	285	(20)
Kristin Eldyss Sorensen Zapalac
Construction of Masculinity and Male Identity in Personal Testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552-1616) in His Memorial	305	(20)
Heide Wunder
About the Contributors	325	(4)
Index	329