Vrouwen in Cultuur en SamenlevingReeks
Deze serie duikt in de complexe en vaak over het hoofd geziene verhalen van vrouwen door de geschiedenis heen en over diverse culturen. Het onderzoekt hun rollen, invloed en strijd voor erkenning binnen patriarchale structuren. Elk deel biedt diepgaande inzichten in de sociale, politieke en culturele krachten die het leven van vrouwen en de samenleving als geheel hebben gevormd. Dit is essentiële lectuur om het verleden en het heden vanuit een vrouwelijk perspectief te begrijpen.
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Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection
- 208bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
In this culmination of decades of research, Rose E. Frisch's Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection explains how, in women, each milestone of the reproductive life span - including puberty, fertility, and menopause - is influenced by food intake and energy output, the factors affecting the storage of fat.
The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer
- 250bladzijden
- 9 uur lezen
"Family Fortunes is a major groundbreaking study that will become a classic in its field. I was fascinated by the information it provided and the argument it established about the role of gender in the construction of middle-class values, family life, and property relations. "The book explores how the middle class constructed its own institutions, material culture and values during the industrial revolution, looking at two settings—urban manufacturing Birmingham and rural Essex—both centers of active capitalist development. The use of sources is dazzling: family business records, architectural designs, diaries, wills and trusts, newspapers, prescriptive literature, sermons, manuscript census tracts, the papers of philanthropic societies, popular fiction, and poetry. "Family Fortunes occupies a place beside Mary Ryan's The Cradle of the Middle Class and Suzanne Lebsock's Free Women of Petersburg. It provides scholars with a definitive study of the middle class in England, and facilitates a comparative perspective on the history of middle-class women, property, and the family."—Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
Nails in the Wall
Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany
During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther instituted new ideologies addressing gender, marriage, chastity, and religious life that threatened Catholic monasticism. Yet many living in cloistered religious communities, particularly women, refused to accept these new terms and were successful in their opposition to the new Protestant culture.Focusing primarily on a group of Dominican nuns in Strasbourg, Germany, Amy Leonard's Nails in the Wall outlines the century-long battle between these nuns and the Protestant city council. With savvy strategies that employed charm, wealth, and political and social connections, the nuns were able to sustain their Catholic practices. Leonard's in-depth archival research uncovers letters about and records of the nuns' struggle to maintain their religious beliefs and way of life in the face of Protestant reforms. She tells the story of how they worked privately to keep Catholicism alive-continuing to pray in Latin, smuggling in priests to celebrate Mass, and secretly professing scores of novices to ensure the continued survival of their convents. This fascinating and heartening study shows that, far from passively allowing the Protestants to dismantle their belief system, the women of the Strasbourg convents were active participants in the battle over their vocation and independence.
Family Fortunes
- 608bladzijden
- 22 uur lezen
This seminal text in class and gender history has cast new light on the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850. This revised edition contains a substantial new introduction.
Exploring class and gender dynamics from 1780 to 1850, this influential work offers critical insights into middle-class society and the evolving roles of gender during this period. Its extensive impact on the study of British social history makes it essential for students and scholars alike, shedding light on the complexities of social structures and relationships in a transformative era.
In this study of sexuality, desire, the body and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature.
In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.
Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, and American Modernity
- 464bladzijden
- 17 uur lezen
Focusing on the dynamics of cultural representation, the study uncovers the underlying power structures that shape popular portrayals of the exotic. Through a critical lens, it examines how these depictions reflect and influence societal perceptions. Enhanced by five line drawings and twenty halftones, the work offers a visually engaging exploration of cultural narratives. The author challenges readers to reconsider their understanding of cultural difference and the implications it has on power relations.
Manliness and Civilization
- 322bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century.
Presenting the biography of Matsuo Taseko, a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period, honoured and then adopted as a patron saint by rightist nationalists, this text gives perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural entrepreneurs and their role in the Meiji Restoration.
