Gendered temporalities in the early modern world / edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 1952- editor.

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects--History--16th century.

Time.

Time--Sociological aspects--History--17th century.

Time--Social aspects--History--16th century.

Time--Social aspects--History--17th century.

Time--Sex differences--History--16th century.

Time--Sex differences--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.

Part I: Temporality and materiality

1. Time, gender, and the mystery of English wine / Dolan, Frances E.

2. Women in the sea of time: Domestic dated objects in seventeenth-century England / Cope, Sophie

3. Time, gender, and nonhuman worlds / Kuffner, Emily / Crachiolo, Elizabeth / Taff, Dyani Johns

Part II: Frameworks and taxonomy of time

4. Telling time through medicine: A gendered perspective / Rankin, Alisha

5. Times told: Women narrating the everyday in early modern Rome / Cohen, Elizabeth S.

6. Genealogical memory: Constructing female rule in seventeenth-century Aceh / Ng, Su Fang

7. Feminist queer temporalities in Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson / Anderson, Penelope / Sperrazza, Whitney

Part III: Embodied time

8. Embodied temporality: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's sacra storia, Donatello's Judith, and the performance of gendered authority in Palazzo Medici, Florence / Terry-Fritsch, Allie

9. Maybe baby: Pregnant possibilities in medieval and early modern literature / Barbaccia, Holly / Packard, Bethany / Wanninger, Jane

10. Evolving families: Realities and images of stepfamilies, remarriage, and halfsiblings in early modern Spain / Coolidge, Grace E. / Warner, Lyndan

Epilogue

11. Navigating the future of early modern women's writing: Pedagogy, feminism, and literary theory / Dowd, Michelle M.

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69650-3

1-04-079146-8

90-485-3526-3

9781003696506

OCLC:

1052613327

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access