The youth of early modern women / edited by Elizabeth S. Cohen and Margaret Reeves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Cohen, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1968- editor.

Reeves, Margaret, editor.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Europe--History.

Young women.

Young women--Europe--Social conditions.

Youth--Europe--History.

Youth.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised 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, Switzerland, and the Netherlands from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. These essays bring fresh attention to representations of female youth, young women's training for adulthood, their own life writings, and courtship and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Concepts and Representations

1. `A Prospect of Flowers'

Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture / Margaret Reeves

2. A Roving Woman

The Rover, Part land Hellena's Self-Creation of Youth / Sarah Morris

3. `She is but a girl'

Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Consistory Courts, 1550

1650 / Jennifer McNabb

4. Flight and Confinement

Female Youth, Agency, and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain / Jacqueline Holler

5. Harlots and Camp Followers

Swiss Renaissance Drawings of Young Women circa 1520 / Christiane Andersson

pt. 2 Self-Representations: Life-Writing and Letters

6. Three Sisters of Carmen

The Youths of Teresa de Jesus, Maria de San Jose, and Ana de San Bartolome / Barbara Mujica

7. Elite English Girlhood in Early Modern Ireland

The Examples of Mary Boyle and Alice Wandesford / Julie A. Eckerle

8. Young Women Negotiating Fashion in Early Modern Florence / Megan Moran

9. `Is it possible that my sister [...] has had a baby?'

The Early Years of Marriage as a Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood in the Letters of Three Generations of Orange-Nassau Women / Jane Couchman

pt. 3 Training for Adulthood

10. Malleable Youth

Forging Female Education in Early Modern Rome / Alessandra Franco

11. The Material Culture of Female Youth in Bologna, 1550-1600

Michele Nicole Robinson

12. Becoming a Woman in the Dutch Republic

Advice Literature for Young Adult Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Marja van Tilburg

pt. 4 Courtship and Becoming Sexual

13. Straying and Led Astray

Roman Maids Become Young Women circa 1600 / Elizabeth S. Cohen

14. A Room of Their Own

Young Women, Courtship, and the Night in Early Modern England / Eleanor Hubbard

15. In Search of a `Remedy'

Young Women, their Intimate Partners, and the Challenge of Fertility in Early Modern France / Julie Hardwick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Youth of early modern women.

ISBN:

9462984328

9789462984325

OCLC:

1049818698

Publisher Number:

99987580851