Gender, Church and State in Early Modern Germany: Essays by Merry E. Wiesner

ISBN-13: 9780582292826 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 238 str.

Professor Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Opis

This volume brings together 11 essays which consider three main issues in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work.

Spis treści

General Introduction.  1. Women's Defence of Their Public Role.  2. From Spiritual Virginity to Family as Calling.  3. Ideology Meets the Empire: Reformed Convents and the Reformation.  4. The Reformation of the Women.  5. Frail, Weak, and Helpless: Women's Legal Position in Theory and Reality.  6. Paternalism in Practice: The Control of Servants and Prostitutes in Early Modern German Cities.  7. War, Work, and Wealth: The Bases of Citizenship in Early Modern German Cities.  8. Spinning Out Capital: Women's Work in the Early Modern Economy.  9. Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany.  10. Wandervogels and Women: Journeymen's Concepts of Masculinity in Early Modern Germany.  11. Concluding Essay: Reassessing, Transforming, Complicating: Two Decades of Early Modern Women's History.

O autorze

Wiesner, Merry E.