TY - BOOK ID - 57000007 TI - The Youth of Early Modern Women AU - Cohen, Elizabeth S. AU - Reeves, Margaret AU - S. Cohen, Elizabeth PY - 2018 SN - 9789462984325 9789048534982 9462984328 9048534984 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - History of Europe KW - women [female humans] KW - youth [people] KW - jonge vrouw KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - Youth KW - Young women KW - History. KW - Women KW - Young adults KW - Girls KW - Young people KW - Young persons KW - Youngsters KW - Youths KW - Age groups KW - Life cycle, Human KW - Europe. KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - youth, women, early modern, girlhood, marriage. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:57000007 AB - Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry - cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences - these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women. ER -