This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the fe
Telltale Women: Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography
โ Scribed by Allison Machlis Meyer
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 351
- Series
- Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Very Prey to Time
2. Your Hope Is Gone
3. From a Noble Lady to an Unnatural Queen
4. So Masculine a Stile
5. You Must Be King of Me
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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