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The Youth of early modern women

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Through fifteen varied case studies that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection of essays makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognized that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry--cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences--the essays examine a rich array of primary sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, asylum and judicial records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, Mexico, Germany, and the Netherlands from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, the training for adulthood, their own life writings, courtship and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.

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Call Number

305.235 YOU y

Publisher

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 2018

Collation

263 p.; 22 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789462984325

Classification

305.235

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Subject(s)

Young Women

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Statement of Responsibility

Edited by Elizabeth S. Cohen and Margaret Reeves

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