Amsterdam University Press Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World: 1 (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World)

Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time. Review These two editions bring us one step closer to making women and their legacies part of the center, rather than the edge. As Dowd reminds us, early modern women's history and literature is still seen as marginal by the academy itself (262). This relegation to the margin can only be remedied if early modernists start embracing women, their histories, and their texts as integral parts of early modern studies. The essays in these two editions encourage their readers to do just that. - Lotte Fikkers, Leiden University, Journal of Early Modern History 25 (2021). Joint review with Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, Lisa Hopkins, Aidan Norrie, (eds), Amsterdam University Press, 2019 Read as a whole, Gendered Temporalities is a powerful testament to the ongoing vitality of feminist frameworks for engaging material history, literary criticism, and theoretical debate. - Melissa E. Sanchez, Early Modern Women, Fall 2020 From the Inside Flap Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways thatgender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time. About the Author Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, and the author or editor of more than 30 books that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.