Gender and early modern constructions of childhood
By: Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh
Contributors: Yavneh, Naomi
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781409429975
Subjects: Study and teaching; Family relationships; Children's plays; Gender identity; Children; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early modern children as subjects : gender matters / Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh; title: Conceptualizing childhood : loss and celebration; title: A comfortable farewell : child-loss and funeral monuments in early modern England; title: Parents, children, and responses to death in dream structures in early modern England / Patricia Philippy, Carole Levin; title: Lost and found : Veronese's finding of Moses / Naomi Yavneh; title: "Certein childeplayes remembred by the fayre ladies" : girls and their games / Katherine R. Larson; title: Imprinting identity : education and social training; title: The facts of enfance : Rabelais's satire of sixteenth-century French pediatrics / Marie Rutkoski; title: "Our little darlings" : Huguenot children and child-rearing in the letters of Louise de Coligny / Jane Couchman; title: Anne Dormer and her children / Sara Mendelson; title: "Obey and be attentive" : gender and household instruction in Shakespeare's the Tempest / Kathryn Moncrief; title: Producing girls on the English stage : performance as pedagogy in Mary Ward's convent schools / Caroline Bicks; title: Transitional stages : growing up and growing old; title: Boys to men : codpieces and masculinity in sixteenth-century Europe / Carole Collier Frick; title: Marvell, boys, girls and men : should we worry / Diane Purkiss; title: Martyrs and minors : allegories of childhood in Cervantes / Emilie Bergmann; title: Portraiture and royal family ties : kings, queens, princes, and princesses in Caroline England / Julia Marciari Alexander; title: "Second childishness" and the Shakespearean vision of ideal parenting / Gregory M. Colon Semenza.