Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France

Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France – … Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France – Edited by Suzanne Desan and Jeffrey Merrick

how one group viewed gender differences. We must be wary of taking them too far, however, especially since part of the early modern "debate about women" was simply a rhetorical exercise. Within the last fifteen years, the rise of women's history and family history has led to new ways of exploring issues of gender. Historians of HIST 715 Family, Gender, and Sexuality in the Early Modern ...

how one group viewed gender differences. We must be wary of taking them too far, however, especially since part of the early modern "debate about women" was simply a rhetorical exercise. Within the last fifteen years, the rise of women's history and family history has led to new ways of exploring issues of gender. Historians of

The Practice of Patriarchy examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Making creative use of judicial and notarial records, Julie Hardwick brings to life a little-known aspect of early modern culture: the daily experience of middling urban families—from work to family to neighborhood to involvement in local Family, gender, and law in early modern France ...

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