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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe: 1500 - 1700
Gender Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe 1500 1700 Author:Penny Richards, Jessica Munns This is a new collection of essays by leading scholars of the social, political, economic and cultural situation of women and men in early modern Europe. Organized into four sections, Courtly Worlds, Religious Experience, Civic Worlds, and Literature and Gender, this original collection provides a contemporary map with which to understand the pa... more »st. The essays reflect the current trend towards integrating the historical experience of women and men. They focus on key areas of contemporary interest and importance, and incorporate research and research methods that have evolved over the last twenty years. The collection provides examples of the major approaches - gender studies, family studies, studies of religion and popular culture and brings together studies of significant figures and studies of the everyday - eg: Louise of Savoy, Elizabeth I, women and courts. The essays incorporate all the latest research and themes/topics of current interest - interdisciplinary approach . For those interested in gender history.« less