Sisters and workers in the Middle Ages

Author(s)

• Bennett, Judith M.

Bibliographic Information

Sisters and workers in the Middle Ages

edited by Judith M. Bennett ... [et al.]

University of Chicago Press, 1989

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life. These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA07910663
• ISBN:
  • 0226042472
  • 0226042480
• LCCN: 89009137
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: 299 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD1143
  • DC20 : 305.4/09/02
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
  • LCSH : Monastic and religious life of women -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • LCSH : Women -- Employment -- Europe -- History
  • LCSH : Sex role -- Europe -- History