Women's Education in Early Modern Europe

Women's Education in Early Modern Europe
Author: Barbara Whitehead
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135580944

This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.

Pedagogy and Power

Pedagogy and Power
Author: Yun Lee Too
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 1998-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0521594359

An exploration of the political dimensions of Graeco-Roman education and of its subsequent models.

Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
Author: Cissie C. Fairchilds
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780582357181

In this wide-ranging volume, Cissie Fairchilds rejects conventional accounts of the Early Modern period that claim it was a period of diminishing power and rights for European women. Instead, she shows that it was a period of positive changes that challenged and led to the eventual destruction of traditional misogynist notions that women were inferior to men. The book explores the historical basis of patriarchal views of women and describes the great intellectual debate over the nature and roles of women taking place at the time. It gives an account of women's daily lives and looks at women's work during the period. The book also deals with the role of women in religion and with witchcraft and the prosecution of women as witches. The book concludes by examining the relationship between women and the State.

Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe
Author: Anna Bellavitis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319965417

In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women’s roles in economic urban activities. Covering a wide area of early modern Europe, from Portugal to Poland and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Bellavitis presents an overview of the economic rights of women – property, inheritance, management of their wealth, access to the guilds, access to education – and assesses the evolution of female work in different urban contexts.

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe
Author: Amanda L. Capern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2019-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000709590

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

The Youth of Early Modern Women

The Youth of Early Modern Women
Author: Elizabeth Storr Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9789462984325

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry -- cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences -- these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe
Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Beatrix, Ungarn, Königin
ISBN: 9789462987500

This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected to occupy the spheres society believed their gender should.

Literacy in Early Modern Europe

Literacy in Early Modern Europe
Author: R.A. Houston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317879260

The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites.

Education in Early Modern England

Education in Early Modern England
Author: Helen M. Jewell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 231
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780312217471

Covering the period c.1530-c.1760, this book analyzes the aims, facilities and achievements across all levels of institutional and informal education in England. Attention is given to the education situation in the rest of the British Isles, as well as western Europe and North America. Providing a strong grasp of the medieval foundations of education in England, the book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the current state of the debate, also integrating women's education into the general picture.

Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle

Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle
Author: Anna Maria van Schurman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226850005

Advocate and exemplar of women's education, female of aristocratic birth and modest demeanor, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was one of Reformation Europe's most renowned writers defending women's intelligence. From her early teens, Schurman garnered recognition and admiration for her accomplishments in languages, philosophy, poetry, and painting. As an adult she actively engaged in written correspondence and debate with Europe's leading intellectuals. Nevertheless, Schurman refused to regard herself as an anomaly among women. A supporter of the female sex, she argues that the same rigorous education that shaped her should be made available to all Christian daughters of the aristocracy. Gathered here in meticulous translation are Anna Maria van Schurman's defense of women's education, her letters to other learned women, and her own account of her early life, as well as responses to her work from male contemporaries, and rare writings by Schurman's mentor, Voetius. This volume will interest the general reader as well as students of women's, religious, and social history.