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Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (Paperback, New)
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Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (Paperback, New)
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When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages,
towns, and cities populated by conventional families-married
couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass
many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision
of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage
deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and
places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained
single throughout their lives. Despite the significant number of
never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the
study of their role and position in that society has been largely
neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for
further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight
the important minority of women who never married but also the
first to address the critical matter of differences among women
from the perspective of marital status. Essays by leading
scholars-among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo
Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry
Wiesner-deal with topics including the sexual and emotional
relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment
opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of
widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and
prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both
illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth
through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the
experiences of singlewomen in earlier times.
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