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Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Paperback): Mary Elizabeth Perry

Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville (Paperback)

Mary Elizabeth Perry

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In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability--prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growing central government linked closely to the church. Focusing on Seville, the commercial capital of Habsburg Spain, Perry uses rich archival sources to document the economic and spiritual activity of women, and efforts made by civil and church authorities to control this activity, during a period of local economic change and religious turmoil.

In analyzing such sources as art and literature from the period, women's writings, Inquisition records, and laws and regulations, Perry finds that social definitions of what it meant to be a woman or a man persisted due to their sanctification by religious ideas and their adaptation into political order. She describes the tension between gender ideals and actual conditions in women's lives, and shows how some women subverted the gender order by using a surprisingly wide variety of intellectual and physical strategies.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1990
First published: August 1990
Authors: Mary Elizabeth Perry
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00854-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-691-00854-X
Barcode: 9780691008547

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