Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe - 9781138475496

Taylor & Francis

Organized into four sections of Courtly Worlds, Religious Experience, Civic Worlds, and Literature and Gender, this collection provides a contemporary map that helps in understanding the past. It includes essays that reflect the trend towards integrating the historical experience of women and men, and focuses on areas of contemporary interest. > Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past. The authors of this collection explore how issues of sexuality, class, nationalism and colonialism informed the ways in which women were represented and continue to be represented in history. They show the ways in which women have been excluded, silenced and misrepresented in stories of the past, and how women's lives have been distorted or simplified in conventional historical accounts. Together, they suggest fresh ways of approaching women's history, and use examples of work in new areas of research such as women's health and le'