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A collection of essays that explore the tensions between shared gender identity and the social differences structuring women's lives. This work considers the possibilities for commonalities and the forces for division between women. The essays contained herein range from the late medieval period to the eighteenth century.

Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government's commitment to the eradication of Christianity in the mid 17th century, this book outlines how women provided leadership in the spread, nurture, and maintenance of the faith through apostolic ministries.

Bringing to light material about early print, early modern gender discourses, and cultural contact between France and England in the revolutionary first phase of English print culture, this book focuses on many early Renaissance verse translations about women, marriage, sex, and gender relations.

Explores the gender implications of the complex system of household management and public representation in which seventeenth-century Finnish women and men negotiated their positions. This work includes historiographical discussion on the history of witchcraft, on women's and gender history and on early modern social history.

Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, this work demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps.

Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on Stampa has been surprisingly scarce and unsystematic. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines employ contrasting methodologies to explore different aspects of Stampäs work. The volume presents a rich introduction to, and interdisciplinary investigation of, Stampäs impact on Renaissance culture.

Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s - the coffee house periodical - the author offers evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal topic, was an issue of general interest and widespread concern to the early modern reader.

Marriage today is a prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the main economic institution. The essays presented here offer a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of marriage in Northern Europe over a 500-year period.