Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Prime of Their LivesCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: Wise Old Women in Pre Industrial EuropeISBN-10: 9042915331EAN: 9789042915336ISBN: 9789042915336Publisher: Peeters PublishersRelease Date: 08/01/2005Description: The contributions to this volume show that, in pre-industrial Europe, women in their prime, women, that is, who had reached maturity and were beyond fertility, but not yet in old age, constitute a separate category for historical and literary analysis. These wise old women, or WOWs, took on tasks in society which were essentially different from the ones they had taken on before, mainly in the household. The case studies presented here show that some of these women entered a second phase of creativity and productivity and were even able to fulfil their desires at the age of forty. Being able, at last, to find their authentic selves, they acquired a female voice of their own. For some of them, for example, Christine de Pizan, the age of forty even functioned as a trope of female authorship.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: BEContributor: Renee Nip (Edited by), B. Mulder-Bakker (Edited by)Author: Renee NipGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, HistoryBook Series: Groningen Studies in Cultural ChangeRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Prime of Their Lives
Title: The Prime of Their Lives
Subtitle: Wise Old Women in Pre Industrial Europe
ISBN-10: 9042915331
EAN: 9789042915336
ISBN: 9789042915336
Release Date: 08/01/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: BE
Contributor: B. Mulder-Bakker (Edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 186 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Prime of Their Lives : Wise Old Women in Pre-Industrial Europe
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women, Life Stages / Later Years, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Modern / General, Europe / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Renee Nip
Item Length: 9.8 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.6 in
Series: Groningen Studies in Cultural Change Ser.
Format: Hardcover
