Women And Work In Premodern Europe
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| Author | : Merridee L. Bailey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2018-05-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1315475073 |
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c. 1100 to c. 1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women’s working experiences, and by adopting new interpretive approaches that expand received assumptions about what constituted 'work' for women. While attention to the diversity of women’s contributions to the economy has done much to make the breadth of women’s experiences of labour visible, this volume takes a more expansive conceptual approach to the notion of work and considers the social and cultural dimensions in which activities were construed and valued as work. This interdisciplinary collection thus advances concepts of work that encompass cultural activities in addition to more traditional economic understandings of work as employment or labour for production. The chapters reconceptualise and explore work for women by asking how the working lives of historical women were enacted and represented, and analyse the relationships that shaped women’s experiences of work across the European premodern period.
| Author | : Christopher Mielke |
| Publisher | : Trivent Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2019-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 6158122238 |
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, "common women" who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.
| Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
| Publisher | : Brighter Child |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780872265691 |
Looks at the lives and social conditions of women in medieval Europe.
| Author | : Teresa A. Meade |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 691 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0470692820 |
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.
| Author | : Mary D. Garrard |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2023-08-25 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1789142393 |
An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she is celebrated by feminist critics and scholars. This book breaks new ground by placing Gentileschi in the context of women’s political history. Mary D. Garrard, noted Gentileschi scholar, shows that the artist most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti. She discusses recently discovered paintings, offers fresh perspectives on known works, and examines the artist anew in the context of feminist history. This beautifully illustrated book gives for the first time a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art.
| Author | : Daniela Rywiková |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2021-12-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1666905240 |
Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe is a representative collection of current Czech research in premodern history and art history, using gender as a tool of analysis. The common denominators of the texts collected in this volume are the art history of the premodern period, gender perspectives, and, to a certain degree, the Czech milieu. The book is divided into four parts, based on area of interest, time frame, and research perspective. The first part sheds light on the state of research in the field of women's history—along with the implementation of the concept of gender—and highlights a certain paradigmatic conservatism of Czech art historiography. The second gathers contributions that analyze visual sources of Czech origin. The third includes texts that analyze gender issues on the level of literary representation. The final part presents two case studies that involve analysis of the premodern West European source base. Rywiková and Malaníková present this volume as an innovative way to introduce this specific segment of Central European art history to a broader audience in global academia.
| Author | : Patricia Simons |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2011-10-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107004918 |
A richly textured cultural history that investigates the characterization of the sex of adult male bodies before the Enlightenment.
| Author | : John Boswell |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2013-08-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0804150958 |
Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
| Author | : Penelope D. Johnson |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2009-05-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0226401979 |
In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were "different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession." Johnson researched more than two dozen nunneries in northern France from the eleventh century through the thirteenth century, balancing a qualitative reading of medieval monastic documents with a quantitative analysis of a lengthy thirteenth-century visitation record which allows an important comparison of nuns and monks. A fascinating look at the world of medieval spirituality, this work enriches our understanding of women's role in premodern Europe and in church history.
| Author | : Cordelia Beattie |
| Publisher | : Boydell Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1843838338 |
Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.
