Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
About the Book Series
The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Routledge series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.
Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage
1st Edition
Edited
By Erin Griffey
July 22, 2008
Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout ...
Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Tarbin, Susan Broomhall
May 20, 2008
Addressing a key challenge facing feminist scholars today, this volume explores the tensions between shared gender identity and the myriad social differences structuring women's lives. By examining historical experiences of early modern women, the authors of these essays consider the possibilities ...
Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium
1st Edition
By Helen King
July 28, 2007
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and ...
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity
1st Edition
By Susan E. Dinan
January 28, 2006
Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. Unusually for the time, this group of ...
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory
1st Edition
By Faith E. Beasley
January 05, 2006
The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and ...
Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
1st Edition
Edited
By Theresa Earenfight
August 28, 2005
Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the ...
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain: The Permeable Cloister
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
April 21, 2005
Through an examination of the role of nuns and the place of convents in both the spiritual and social landscape, this book analyzes the interaction of gender, religion and society in late medieval and early modern Spain. Author Elizabeth Lehfeldt here examines the tension between religious reform, ...
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
1st Edition
By Lianne McTavish
March 29, 2005
Throughout the early modern period in France, surgeon men-midwives were predominantly associated with sexual impropriety and physical danger; yet over time they managed to change their image, and by the eighteenth century were summoned to attend even the uncomplicated deliveries of wealthy, urban ...
The Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400–1900
1st Edition
By Maria Ågren, Amy Louise Erickson
February 17, 2005
Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in northern Europe over a 500-year period. ...
The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre
1st Edition
By Barbara Stephenson
February 28, 2004
Although Marguerite de Navarre's unique position in sixteenth-century France has long been acknowledged and she is one of the most studied women of the time, until now no study has focused attention on Marguerite's political life. Barbara Stephenson here fills the gap, delineating Marguerite's ...
Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World
1st Edition
By Marta V. Vicente, Luis R. Corteguera
December 23, 2003
This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors examine women and the construction of gender thematically, dealing with the areas of politics, law, ...
Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Hyde, Jennifer Milam
November 28, 2003
The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with ...