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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Snook, Edith
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, Verenigd Koninkrijk, vroegmoderne periode, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw
- Description
- Snook looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the authors considered are Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Dorothy Leigh, : Elizabeth Grymeston, Aemelia Lanyer and Mary Wroth. Attentive to contiguities between representations of reading in print and reading practices found in manuscript culture, this book also examines a commonplace book belonging to Anne Cornwallis and a Passion poem presented by Elizabeth Middleton to Sarah Edmondes. .Snook explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices.
form and persuasion
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Couchman, Jane > [ed]
- Creator
- Crabb, Ann > [ed]
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- egodocumenten, joodse vrouwen, armoede, adel, heiligen, vroegmoderne periode, Europa
- Description
- This collection of essays covers women across Europe ( e.g. Anna Maria van Schurman) and England and offers insights not only into women's letter writing, but also into the boundaries of script and print, the complexities of early modern literacy, the intersection of public and private spaces, and the ways that women garnered power through direct and indirect means. Many authors offer quotations and translations of manuscript letters otherwise inaccessible to most readers.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McTavish, Lianne
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- FR 34 2005
- Thesaurus
- bevallingen, gynaecologie, verloskundigen, mannen, seksualiteit, vrouwenlichamen, vroegmoderne periode, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, Frankrijk
- Description
- 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 clients. In this study, Lianne McTavish explores how surgeons strove to transform the perception of their midwifery practices, claiming to be experts who embodied obstetrical authority instead of intruders in a traditionally feminine domain. .McTavish argues that early modern French obstetrical treatises were sites of display participating in both the production and contestation of authoritative knowledge of childbirth. Though primarily written by surgeon men-midwives, the texts were also produced by female midwives and male physicians. She discovers that male practitioners did not always disdain maternal values. The men regularly identified themselves with qualities traditionally respected in female midwives, including a bodily experience of childbirth. Her findings suggest that men's entry into the lying-in chamber was a complex negotiation involving their adaptation to the demands of women.
gender and power in Renaissance Florence
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tomas, Natalie R.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 9 2005
- Thesaurus
- macht, adel, biografische gegevens, Italië, renaissance
- Description
- This is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Tomas examines the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it: and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late medieval and early modern Italy and Europe. She takes a feminist approach that examines the experience of the Medici women within a critical framework of gender analysis, rather than biography. She analyzes the Medici women's uses of power and influence over time. She also analyzes the varied contemporary reactions to and representation of that power, and the manner in which the women's actions in the political sphere changed over the course of the century between republican and ducal rule (1434–1537). The narrative focuses especially on how women were able to exercise power, the constraints placed upon them, and how their gender intersected with the exercise of power and influence. oorspr. uitgave: 2003
the permeable cloister
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A.
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 8 2005
- Thesaurus
- religie, religieuze gemeenschappen, religieuzen, spiritualiteit, vroegmoderne periode, middeleeuwen, Spanje
- Description
- 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, which demanded that all nuns observe strict enclosure, and the traditional identity of Spanish nuns and their institutions, in which they were spiritually and temporally powerful women. Lehfeldt's work is based on the archival records of twenty-three convents in the city of Valladolid, and peninsula-wide documents that include visitation records, the constitutions of religious orders, and spiritual biographies.
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