Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation

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Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation

Alexandra Shepard,Garthine Walker

Description

Through a collection of essays by leading scholars on women's history and gender history, Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation questions conventional chronologies while reassessing the relationship between gender, agency, continuity and change.

Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History
Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. For example, whether the European Renaissance can be classified as the same period of great cultural advance when viewed from the perspective of women
Offers innovative historiographical and theoretical reflection on approaches to gender, agency, and change

About the Author

Alexandra Shepard teaches Early Modern History at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of several articles on the history of masculinity and Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (2003).

Garthine Walker is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff. She has published on various aspects of gender and crime and is the author of Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (2003).

Features

Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History
Features essays by leading scholars in the fields of women's history and gender history
Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation.
Questions if the European Renaissancecanbe classified as the same period of great cultural advance when viewed from the perspective of women
Offers innovative historiographical and theoretical reflection on approaches to gender, agency, and change

Series

Gender and History Special Issues

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