Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Published:28th May '18
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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.
"These two editions bring us one step closer to making women and their legacies part of the center, rather than the edge. As Dowd reminds us, early modern women’s history and literature is still seen as marginal by the academy itself (262). This relegation to the margin can only be remedied if early modernists start embracing women, their histories, and their texts as integral parts of early modern studies. The essays in these two editions encourage their readers to do just that."
- Lotte Fikkers, Leiden University, Journal of Early Modern History 25 (2021). Joint review with Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, Lisa Hopkins, Aidan Norrie, (eds), Amsterdam University Press, 2019
"Read as a whole, Gendered Temporalities is a powerful testament to the ongoing vitality of feminist frameworks for engaging material history, literary criticism, and theoretical debate."
- Melissa E. Sanchez, Early Modern Women, Fall 2020
ISBN: 9789462984585
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286 pages