TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reeves,Margaret
AU  - Cohen,Elizabeth S.
TI  - The Youth of Early Modern Women
T2  - Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
SN  - 9789048534982
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - History / Modern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Through fifteen essays that work from 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 - these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse   England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and   Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.    
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/f69686a8-6316-46fa-a2fa-c260796f72ed
ER  -