Ages of Woman, Ages of Man: Sources in European Social History, 1400-1750

by Merry Wiesner Hanks, Monica Chojnacka, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Book Overview

The collection is organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, and is divided into eight chapters: childhood, youth and sexuality, courtship and weddings, married life, economic life, networks and communities, and widowhood and old age. The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men's notions of themselves affected their lives, and explore how accepted norms of masculine and feminine behaviour influenced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582418739
• ISBN13: 9780582418738
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"