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Gender and sexual relations in Europe (12th-18th century)
Other Titles: Ideals, practices, representations
Authors: Plakotos, Giorgos
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > MEDIEVAL HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > MODERN HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > HISTORIOGRAPHY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > HISTORY OF COUNTRIES > EUROPE, MEDITERRANEAN, MIDDLE EAST
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > HISTORY OF FEMINISM
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > LITERARY ANALYSIS > TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > FEMINIST/GENDER STUDIES
Keywords:
Middle Ages
Early Modern Period
Renaissance
Patriarchy
Homosociality
History of sexuality
Gender history
Queer
Domestic heterosexuality
Patrilineality
Masculinities
Femininities
Homosocial imaginary
Desire
Heterosexual imaginary
Description:
Abstract:
The book is designed to offer a multi-faceted and nuanced examination of gender and sexual relations in Europe by adopting a longue durée perspective from the 12th to the 18th century, a period which conventionally includes the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and early modernity. In this view, the book examines long-term continuities but also transformations engendered by institutional, social and economic transitions and processes, such as feudalism, the Renaissance, the Reformation, urbanization, merchant capitalism, changes in medical theories and the emergence of civil society. How were gender, sex and the body conceptualized, imagined, normalized, and performed in the patriarchal societies of premodern Europe? Gender, sex and the body are approached as practices, discursive constructions, performances and representations and at the same time they serve as sites where the values, taxonomies, social processes, and symbolic idioms of premodern European societies can be discerned. Weaving together printed sources, visual material and literary texts, the book discusses examples and case studies from various social and geographical milieus of the premodern past. It surveys debates and interpretive trajectories from gender and women’s history, the history of sexuality and the body, queer theory, history and literary criticism. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book draws on cultural and social history, gender and queer history, and on insights from the fields of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Linguistic Editors: Bonanos, Manos
Graphic Editors: Kollia, Zoe
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 04-04-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-5726-75-1
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-198
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9308
Bibliographic Reference: Plakotos, G. (2023). Gender and sexual relations in Europe (12th-18th century) [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-198
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Introduction: gender, the body and sexual relations in the longue durée
2. Gender and sex: trajectories, questions and methodologies in medieval and early modern European history
3. Restructuring gender in the medieval West after the Gregorian Reform: norms, practices, representations
4. Desires, practices and the formation of medieval sexual economy, 12th-15th centuries
5. The transition to the early modern period: gender in the Protestant and the Catholic Reformations
6. Merchant capitalism and the restructuring of gender ideals and practices: patrilineality and family in renaissance urban societies, 14th-17th centuries
7. Relations, desires, and the limits of toleration in the sexual organization of the Renaissance and the early modern period, 15th-17th centuries
8. Queer possibilities, bodies and gendered embodiment in the early modern period
9. Gender, sex and the end of early modernity (18th century)
Number of pages 278
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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