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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... Read Full Overview

The only source book for this period and subject to offer such a broad focus, this collection brings together a wide and exciting range of written and visual sources.The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men's notions of themselves affected their... Read Full Overview