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...

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1. Verfasser: Higginbotham, Jennifer
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • '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.