The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence

by Jennifer Higginbotham

The first full-length study of how the concept of the "girl" was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama.

The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the "girl" played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748655905
• ISBN13: 9780748655908
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher