Masculinities, Childhood, Violence : Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men.

This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, "Masculinities," "Violence," "Childhood," and "Pedagogies". Take...

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Main Author: Leonard, Amy E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : attending to early modern women-and men / Amy E. Leonard
  • pt. 1. Theorizing early modern masculinity and maleness: Showing the heart : love, friendship, and anatomy in early modern portraiture / Sarah R. Cohen ; Manhood, patriarchy, and gender in early modern history / Alexandra Shepard ; Hymeneal instruction / Margaret Ferguson
  • pt. 2. Childhood: Sugar and spice and everything nice : gender difference in German primary school education / Amy E. Leonard ; All you need is love : music, romance, and adolescent recreation in sixteenth-century France ; The virgin's body and early modern surgeons / Valeria Finucci
  • pt. 3. Violence: Bosch's Iron age / Margaret D. Carroll ; English child-murder news and the culture of equity / Randall Martin ; Violence, gender, and race in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Susan D. Amussen
  • pt. 4. Pedagogies: Telling tales : women in the early modern Arab world / Judith E. Tucker ; Masculinity, manliness, and mediocrity : the case of Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541-85) / Caroline P. Murphy.