Women In Exile In Early Modern Europe And The Americas
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Author | : Linda Levy Peck |
Publisher | : Women on the move |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781526175359 |
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
Author | : Linda Levy Peck |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526175339 |
Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women’s agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women’s experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
Author | : Richard C. Trexler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Richard C. Trexler (1932-2007) was one of our era’s most original historians. His modest description of himself as “a social historian with an interest in cultural history” hardly does justice to a career that covered fields as diverse as church history, urban history, historical anthropology and sociology, art history, gender and sexuality studies, and early modern Latin America. The seventeen articles in this collection are inspired by Trexler’s scholarly achievements and pay tribute to a scholar who never tired of pursuing new questions, overturning received assumptions, and sharing his enthusiasm for research with his colleagues and students.-- Back cover.
Author | : Nicholas R. Jones |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271083921 |
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts. Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines.
Author | : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 100916080X |
Thoroughly updated edition of a best-selling, acclaimed book, placing early modern European history in a global and environmental context.
Author | : Merry E. Wiesner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2006-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521005210 |
Accessible, engaging textbook offering an innovative account of people's lives in the early modern period.
Author | : Karen Cook Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108831540 |
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author | : Jane Couchman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317041054 |
Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.
Author | : Katherine Holden |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1527551849 |
This is an innovative and wide-ranging edited collection which brings women clearly into view, reflecting their disproportionately high numbers within migrating populations. Spanning four centuries, its contents are culturally diverse but address some important common themes and questions. Beginning with a useful survey of women in migration studies in early modern Europe, subsequent chapters explore the following topics: the exile experiences in Europe, firstly of English Brigittine nuns, and secondly of Catholic Gentlewomen displaced by the English Reformation; the dual national identities of a French woman moving to America during the revolutionary period; the lives of two women preachers moving to an American city with a large migrant population in the mid 20th century; and finally, autobiographical narratives of Islamic women exiled in body and/or mind from their countries of origin in the late twentieth century. The authors and editors consider the significance of spirituality amongst women migrants, address the difficulties of generalising from individual experiences and consider issues raised by a particular focus on elite women. The focus on personal narratives crosses disciplinary boundaries making it a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in migration history, autobiography, personal narratives, social history and gender and women’s studies.
Author | : Heather Meek |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2023-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022801980X |
In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common yet often devastating illnesses. In Reimagining Illness Heather Meek reads works by six major eighteenth-century women writers – Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Burney – alongside contemporaneous medical texts to explore conditions such as hysteria, melancholy, smallpox, maternity, consumption, and breast cancer. In novels, poems, letters, and journals, these writers drew on their learning and literary skill as they engaged with and revised male-dominated medical discourse. Their works provide insight into the experience of suffering and interrogate accepted theories of women’s bodies and minds. In ways relevant both then and now, these women demonstrate how illness might be at once a bodily condition and a malleable construct full of ideological meaning and imaginative possibility. Reimagining Illness offers a new account of the vital period in medico-literary history between 1660 and 1815, revealing how the works of women writers not only represented the medicine of their time but also contributed meaningfully to its developments.