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- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hills, Helen > [ed]
- Contributor
- Lindquist, Sherry C.M.
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4268 - B
- Thesaurus
- architectuur, ruimtelijke ordening, gebouwde omgeving, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, religieuzen, religieuze gemeenschappen, vroegmoderne periode, 18e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe. In recent years scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which architecture plays a part in the construction of gendered identities. So far the debates have focused on the built environment of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the neglect of the early modern period. This book focuses on early modern Europe, a period decisive for our understanding of gender and sexuality. .Much excellent scholarship has enhanced our understanding of gender division in early modern Europe, but often this scholarship considers gender in isolation from other vital factors, especially social class. Central to the concerns of this book, therefore, is a consideration of the intersections of gender with social rank.
actress, philosophe and feminist
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gordon, Felicia
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2392 - B
- Description
- The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens a new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, published a treatise entitled Vues législatives pour les femmes (Legislative Views for Women), which can lay claim to being the first signed, female-authored feminist manifesto of the French Revolutionary period, and which reveals Jodin's wide reading in women's history and feminist writing since ancient times. .This biography traces the life of a woman, focusing particularly on her transformation from artisan's daughter, to tragic actress, to Enlightenment intellectual and feminist. The authors analyze the confrontations and scandals that beset her career, and read her feminist treatise-here reproduced, for the first time in English, in its entirety-as the summation of a chaotic but passionate existence.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Diaz, Mónica > (ed.)
- Creator
- Quispe-Agnoli, Rocío > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- LAT 1C 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- religie, kolonialisme, slavernij, inheemse volkeren, vroegmoderne periode, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, Latijns-Amerika, bundel
- Description
- Organized according to three themes, 'Censorship and the Body,' 'Female Authority and Legal Discourse' and 'Private Lives and Public Opinions,' the essays in this collection focus on women’s knowledge and the discursive traces of their daily concerns found in various colonial genres. Women are considered as agents of history and as authors of written records produced either by their own hand or by means of dictations, collaborations, or rewritings of their oral renditions. Inhabiting the territories of the Iberian colonies from Peru to New Spain, the women studied in this volume come from different ethnic and social backgrounds, from African slaves to the indigenous elite and to those who arrived from Iberia and were known as 'Old Christians'
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hyde, Melissa
- Creator
- Milam, Jennifer
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4191 - B
- Thesaurus
- kunsten, mode, schilderkunst, identiteit, 18e eeuw, Europa, bundel
- Description
- The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. This collection of essays addresses women's activities as patrons and as 'patronized' artists over the course of the century. Some essays are concerned with how women's involvement in the arts allowed them to fashion identities for themselves (whether national, political, religious, intellectual, artistic, or gender-based) and how such self-fashioning in turn enabled them to negotiate or intervene in the public domains of culture and politics where 'The Woman Question' was so hotly debated. Other essays examine how men's patronage of women also served as a vehicle for self-fashioning for both artist and sponsor. Artists and patrons discussed include: Carriera: Queen Lovisa Ulrike and Chardin: the Bourbon Princesses Mlle Clermont, Mme Adélaïde and Nattier: the Duchess of Osuna and Goya: Marie-Antoinette and Vigée-Lebrun: Labille-Guiard: Queen Carolina of Naples, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski of Poland and Kauffman: David and his students, Mesdames Benoist, Lavoisier and Mongez.
- Categories
- 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.
the uses of a sixteenth-century compendium
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- King, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- verloskundigen, gynaecologie, vrouwenlichamen, baarmoeders, ziekten, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw
- Description
- 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 a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. Helen King concentrates on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the 'man-midwife' William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the 'father of medicine', Hippocrates, as the 'father of midwifery'. The study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueur's model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that women's difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female 'difference' was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Luckyj, Christina > (ed.) (introd.)
- Creator
- O'Leary, Niamh J. > (ed.) (introd.)
- Creator
- Frye, Susan > (afterw.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2017
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, vrouwbeelden, vriendinnen, sociale netwerken, politiek, vroegmoderne periode, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, bundel, essay
- Description
- This publication reevaluates the nature and extent of women’s political alliances, based on archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and law. Grouped into three sections - domestic, court, and kinship alliances - these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Female writers discussed are, amongst others, the Cavendish Sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips.
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