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oapen-20.500.12657-613682024-03-27T14:14:30Z Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity Wiesner-Hanks, Merry Women's agency, early modern, women's writing, material culture, gender thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific. 2023-02-17T13:47:21Z 2023-02-17T13:47:21Z 2020 book 9789463729321 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61368 eng Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048550937.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463729321 10.5117/9789463729321 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a Knowledge Unlatched 9789463729321 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 312 Amsterdam open access
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Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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