This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to s...This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. It tests verifies and challenges the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable to...more
This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while try...This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual identity and difference that past research claims much of this...more
Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed inmedievalandearly mode...Exploring the boundaries of the law as they existed in medieval and early modern times and as they have been perceived by historians this volume offers a wide ranging insight into a key aspect of European society. Alongside and inexorably linked...more
The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to ...The purpose of this edited volume is to explore the contributions of women to European Mexican American and Indian film industries during the years 1900 to 1950 an important period that signified the rise and consolidation of media technologies....more
Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in ...Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender far from being a marginal or frivolous topic was an issue of...more
How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions ...How did WWI affect the love lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions as couples? This book focuses on how dramatic changes in living conditions affected key parts of the life course of ordinary citizens: marriage and divorce. Innovative in...more
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitar...Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible...more
The third edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks prize-winning survey of women and gen...The third edition of Merry Wiesner-Hanks prize-winning survey of women and gender in early modern Europe. The updated edition features an entirely new chapter on gender and race in the colonial world; expanded coverage of eighteenth century...more
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitar...Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible...more
This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering ...This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture courts government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces outlining how a particular...more
Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture and the needs of wealthy ...Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage-...more
This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship:...This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be...more
This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art ...This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history. It takes as its starting point the final years of the nineteenth century which saw the establishment of the first museum laboratory in Berlin and ground-breaking...more
While the relationships between parents and children have long been a staple o...While the relationships between parents and children have long been a staple of critical inquiry bonds between siblings have received far less attention among early modern scholars. Indeed until now no single volume has focused specifically on...more
Surveying court life and urban life warfare religion and peace this book provi...Surveying court life and urban life warfare religion and peace this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and...more