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1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Women and gender in the early modern world
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Women and gender in the early modern world.
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| Summary |
Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and urban precincts, and combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been interpreted in modern academic and popular contexts. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Writing elite women into the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands -- Visualizing women's work in the textile trades at the dawn of the Golden Age -- Memorializing grief in familial and national narratives of Dutch identity -- Imagining domesticity in early modern Dutch dolls' houses -- The Rembrandt house and the Rubens house: encountering early modern women through heritage sites -- Sources and settings: the uses of place for tourism, heritage, and history -- Purchasing the past: gender and the consumption of heritage -- Conclusion: from yesterday to tomorrow: seeing and hearing women in the Low Countries. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Benelux countries -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Benelux countries. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Benelux countries -- History.
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Spinks, Jennifer.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Broomhall, Susan. Early modern women in the low countries. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT. : Ashgate Pub., ©2011 9780754667421 (DLC) 2010037647 (OCoLC)664259177 |
| ISBN |
9781409425373 (electronic book) |
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1409425371 (electronic book) |
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9780754667421 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0754667421 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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