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Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales, Paperback / softback Book

Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales Paperback / softback

Edited by Michael Roberts, Simone Clarke

Part of the Gender Studies in Wales series

Paperback / softback

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This collection of essays deals with the material, social and cultural experience of women in Wales from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

It offers information and insight about every aspect of female experience, covering the more conventional aspects of life, such as religion, education and work, as well as a variety of other topics, such as violence, radicalism, embroidery and its connotations, festivals and poetic creativity.

Some of the contributions, notably those on female abduction, witchcraft, needlework, and masculinity, have had light thrown upon them alongside such traditional topics as unionm reformation, Anglicanisation, the Civil War and revivals.

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