Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age

Name: Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern AgeAuthor(s): Amy Leonard, David Whitford\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367507350, 978-0367507350\nSynopsis\nEmbracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and experiences of women and men during the tumultuous fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.\n\nThe authors, all leading experts in their fields, utilize a broad range of methodologies from cultural history to womens history, from masculinity studies to digital mapping, to explore the dynamics and power of constructed gender roles. Ranging from intellectual representations of virginity to the plight of refugees, from the sea journeys of Jesuit missionaries to the impact of Transatlantic economies on womens work, from nuns discovering new ways to tolerate different reli.