Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Whitney Sperrazza
Su Fang Ng
Grace Coolidge
Allie Terry-Fritsch
Elizabeth Cohen
Frances Dolan
Lyndan Warner
Jane Wanninger
Bethany Packard
9789462984585
286 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time.
Author Bio
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, and the author or editor of more than 30 books that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.
