Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe - Muravyeva, Marianna; Toivo, Raisa Maria (New York : Routledge, 2013)
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- Historiography and the politics of gender -- From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti -- The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen -- "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- Female spirituality, religion and gender identities -- A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen -- Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku -- Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises -- Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo -- Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash -- Laws, genders and deviancies -- Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen -- The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki -- Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors -- Notes -- Index.
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Keywords: Gender identity -- Europe -- History; Women -- Europe -- History; Men -- Europe -- History; Electronic books