The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence /
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played...
Salvato in:
| Autore principale: | |
|---|---|
| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
| Pubblicazione: |
Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
|
| Serie: | Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Soggetti: | |
| Accesso online: | Full text available: |
| Tags: |
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
|
Sommario:
- 'A wentche, a gyrle, a damsell' : defining early modern girlhood
- Roaring girls and unruly women : producing femininities
- Female infants and the engendering of humanity
- Where are the girls in English renaissance drama?
- Voicing girlhood : women's life writing and narratives of childhood
- Epilogue : mass-produced languages and the end of touristic choices.