Description |
viii, 240 p. : ill. |
Series |
Routledge research in gender and history ; 14
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Gender identity -- Europe -- History.
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Women -- Europe -- History.
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Men -- Europe -- History.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Muravyeva, Marianna.
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Toivo, Raisa Maria.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9780415537230 |
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9780203110607 (electronic bk.) |
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