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Author Leonard, Amy E

Title Masculinities, Childhood, Violence : Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (401 pages)
Contents Introduction : attending to early modern women-and men / Amy E. Leonard -- pt. 1. Theorizing early modern masculinity and maleness: Showing the heart : love, friendship, and anatomy in early modern portraiture / Sarah R. Cohen ; Manhood, patriarchy, and gender in early modern history / Alexandra Shepard ; Hymeneal instruction / Margaret Ferguson -- pt. 2. Childhood: Sugar and spice and everything nice : gender difference in German primary school education / Amy E. Leonard ; All you need is love : music, romance, and adolescent recreation in sixteenth-century France ; The virgin's body and early modern surgeons / Valeria Finucci -- pt. 3. Violence: Bosch's Iron age / Margaret D. Carroll ; English child-murder news and the culture of equity / Randall Martin ; Violence, gender, and race in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Susan D. Amussen -- pt. 4. Pedagogies: Telling tales : women in the early modern Arab world / Judith E. Tucker ; Masculinity, manliness, and mediocrity : the case of Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541-85) / Caroline P. Murphy
Summary This interdisciplinary volume includes essays and workshop summaries for the 2006 Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men symposium. Essays and workshop summaries are divided into four sections, "Masculinities," "Violence," "Childhood," and "Pedagogies". Taken together, they considers women's works, lives, and culture across geographical regions, primarily in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, the Caribbean, and the Islamic world and explore the shift in scholarly understanding ofwomen's lives and works when they are placed alongside nuanced considerations of men's lives and
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Subject Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Congresses
Men -- Identity -- History -- Congresses
Violence -- History -- Congresses
Children -- History -- Congresses
Civilization, Modern -- 17th century -- Congresses
Children.
Civilization, Modern.
Men -- Identity.
Violence.
Women -- Renaissance.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781611490190
1611490197