LEADER 04243nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910781882603321 005 20230207231346.0 010 $a1-283-21069-X 010 $a9786613210692 010 $a0-8122-0021-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200218 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051239 035 $a(EBL)3441521 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541306 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324673 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541306 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498925 035 $a(PQKB)10343621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441521 035 $a(OCoLC)759158226 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8306 035 $a(DE-B1597)448978 035 $a(OCoLC)979741004 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200218 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491978 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321069 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051239 100 $a20110926d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSinglewomen in the European past, 1250-1800$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-1668-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. A Singular Past --$t2. Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe --$t3. "It Is Not Good That [Wo] man Should Be Alone" --$t4. Single by Law and Custom --$t5. Sex and the Singlewoman --$t6. Transforming Maidens --$t7. Having Her Own Smoke --$t8. Singlewomen in Early Modern Venice --$t9. Marital Status as a Category of Difference --$t10. The Sapphic Strain --$t11. Singular Politics --$tAppendix. Demographic Tables --$tContributors --$tIndex 330 $aWhen we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families?married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives.Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight the important minority of women who never married but also the first to address the critical matter of differences among women from the perspective of marital status.Essays by leading scholars?among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry Wiesner?deal with topics including the sexual and emotional relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the experiences of singlewomen in earlier times. 606 $aSingle women$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aSingle women$zEurope$xSocial conditions 606 $aSingle women$zEurope$xEconomic conditions 606 $aSex role$zEurope$xHistory 615 0$aSingle women$xHistory. 615 0$aSingle women$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aSingle women$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 676 $a305.48/9652/094 701 $aBennett$b Judith M$0687677 701 $aFroide$b Amy M$01575528 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781882603321 996 $aSinglewomen in the European past, 1250-1800$93852562 997 $aUNINA