He is the sun, she is the moon : women in early modern Germany

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He is the sun, she is the moon : women in early modern Germany

Heide Wunder ; translated by Thomas Dunlap

Harvard University Press, 1998

  • : cloth

タイトル別名

Er ist die Sonn', sie ist der Mond : Frauen in der frühen Neuzeit

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注記

Originally published in c1992

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-302) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Heide Wunder refers to the cosmic image contained in the 1578 "Book of Marital Discipline" that characterizes the relationship between husband and wife. In the late 1990s "He is the sun, she is the moon" might be interpreted as a hierarchy of dominance and subordination. At the time it was used, however, sun and moon reflected the different but equal status of husband and wife. Wunder shows how the history of women and the history of gender relations can provide insights into how societies organize themselves and provide resources for political action. The authors observe actual circumstances as well as the normative rules that were supposed to guide women's lives. We learn what skills were necessary to take charge of households, what people ate, how they furnished their homes, what birth control measures were available, what role women played in peasant protest. Wunder finds that, in addition to the history of losses and setbacks for women observed by so many current interpreters, there is a history of gains as well. The regency of noble women was normal, as was the shared responsibility of wife and husband in a peasant household, an artisan's workshop, or a merchant's business. The sources used are as diverse as memoirs, wedding and funeral sermons, novels, and chronicles.

目次

  • Preface: women in the history of early modern Europe. Women's lives, life stories, and history in the early modern period
  • the stages of a woman's life - the course of life and life stories
  • marriage - keeping house and making a living
  • work and life become family-based
  • professionalization, experience, and common sense
  • "the Lord have mercy on all pregnant women" - the female body as destiny? "single and unattached" - maids and widows
  • "evil" women - sorceresses and witches
  • gynarchy - women in charge
  • women's courage - pious women, rebellious women
  • women's rights, civic rights, human rights -emancipation and coming of age in the age of enlightenment and revolution? "he is the sun, she is the moon".

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