Early modern women's work : kinship, community, and social justice
Introduction: Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social JusticeChapter One: Emotional Labor: The Work of MourningChapter Two: Acts of Faith: Maternality and ManagementChapter Three: Writing for Your Life: Refuge and PrecarityChapter Four: Collaborations: Engendering Literary Ide...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London New York : Routledge,
2025
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
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| Schlagworte: | Sex role Labor Intellectual capital Women Gender history;Women's history;History of work;Early modern history;Literary Studies |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social JusticeChapter One: Emotional Labor: The Work of MourningChapter Two: Acts of Faith: Maternality and ManagementChapter Three: Writing for Your Life: Refuge and PrecarityChapter Four: Collaborations: Engendering Literary IdentitiesChapter Five: Kinship: "Amateurs" of Nature and ImitationConclusion: Early Modern Lexicons: Gendered Communities and Social JusticeSelected ReadingsIndex "Early Modern Women's Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe. Through individual and collective authorship, the women analyzed in this study assert a claim to kinship and community, often beyond the hegemonic, heteronormative relationships to family, religion, and monarch. The contributions of early modern women to the construction of productive work spaces and the establishing of intellectual and actual communities are often overlooked or underestimated in scholarship on this period. This book serves as a cultural corrective to suppositions of gender-coded work, because alongside the dominant history of the private sphere as a feminine domain, a counter-narrative emerges with collective authorship. Despite the disparities in their biographies, the women whose work Simpson foregrounds highlight a range of early modern concerns, primarily but not exclusively in German-speaking Europe. These include debates about women's education and erudition; migration and displacement in search of religious or professional freedom; a persistent but varied discourse about female authorship and creative agency; and the assertion of subjectivity against the violent, fractious history of the Thirty Years' War. This book will be an ideal resource for students, scholars and all those interested in German and European studies, women and gender studies, and the history of early modern work"-- Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (200 pages) illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781003266907 1003266908 9781040342855 104034285X 9781040342862 1040342868 9781032211312 1032211318 9781032211329 1032211326 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003266907 |