Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas
Title | Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Levy Peck |
Publisher | Women on the move |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781526175359 |
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
Title | Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Levy Peck |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2024-06-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526175339 |
Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women’s agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women’s experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe
Title | The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Anne J. Cruz |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Europe |
ISBN | 0252076168 |
A transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout Europe
Women on the Move
Title | Women on the Move PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Holden |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2020-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1527551849 |
This is an innovative and wide-ranging edited collection which brings women clearly into view, reflecting their disproportionately high numbers within migrating populations. Spanning four centuries, its contents are culturally diverse but address some important common themes and questions. Beginning with a useful survey of women in migration studies in early modern Europe, subsequent chapters explore the following topics: the exile experiences in Europe, firstly of English Brigittine nuns, and secondly of Catholic Gentlewomen displaced by the English Reformation; the dual national identities of a French woman moving to America during the revolutionary period; the lives of two women preachers moving to an American city with a large migrant population in the mid 20th century; and finally, autobiographical narratives of Islamic women exiled in body and/or mind from their countries of origin in the late twentieth century. The authors and editors consider the significance of spirituality amongst women migrants, address the difficulties of generalising from individual experiences and consider issues raised by a particular focus on elite women. The focus on personal narratives crosses disciplinary boundaries making it a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in migration history, autobiography, personal narratives, social history and gender and women’s studies.
Female Exiles in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Europe
Title | Female Exiles in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Europe PDF eBook |
Author | M. Stanley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2007-09-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230607268 |
A number of historical events of the twentieth century gave rise to migration, immigration, and exile to and within the European continent. This collection represents an effort to raise consciousness about the marginalization of exiled women - artists, writers, political figures, as well as members of ethnic and religious minorities.
Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas
Title | Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Richard C. Trexler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Richard C. Trexler (1932-2007) was one of our era’s most original historians. His modest description of himself as “a social historian with an interest in cultural history” hardly does justice to a career that covered fields as diverse as church history, urban history, historical anthropology and sociology, art history, gender and sexuality studies, and early modern Latin America. The seventeen articles in this collection are inspired by Trexler’s scholarly achievements and pay tribute to a scholar who never tired of pursuing new questions, overturning received assumptions, and sharing his enthusiasm for research with his colleagues and students.-- Back cover.
Staging Habla de Negros
Title | Staging Habla de Negros PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas R. Jones |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2019-05-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0271083921 |
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts. Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines.