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Author:   Enrique Fernandez ,  Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   2
Weight:   0.534kg
ISBN:  

9789004244450

ISBN 10:   900424445
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gender beyond Death Part 1: Gendering One’s Corpse before Death: Wills and Burial Arrangements 1 Postmortem Cross-Dressing and Other Gendered Aspects of Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits, ca. 1350–1650  Kirsten Schut 2 Gender, Race, and Death in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon  Darlene Abreu-Ferreira 3 Gender, Death, and Writing in Seville in the Late Middle Ages: Women in the Libro Blanco and the Libro de Dotaciones  Diego Belmonte Fernández 4 Thinking Outside the Box: Death and Gender in Women’s Autobiographical Poems in Early Modern England  Marlene Dirschauer Part 2: Narrating Deaths: Killing and Being a Corpse as Gendered Performances 5 Good Deaths, Bad Deaths: Deathbed Narratives, Gender, and Politics in Late Quattrocento Florence  Karen Burch 6 Gendered Executions and the Exceptional Repression of Sodomy and Suicide in Late Medieval Flanders  Mireille J. Pardon 7 Death and Dismemberment in Zayas’s World  Marina S. Brownlee 8 The Gender of Relics and Memento Mori  Enrique Fernandez 9 “Un[Gender] Me Here”: Gender, Sex, and Rewriting the Masculine in Shakespeare’s Macbeth  Deirdra Shupe Index

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Enrique Fernandez, PhD (Princeton 1998) is professor of Spanish at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has published articles and monographs on early modern Spain, including the book Anxiety of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2015) Darlene Abreu-Ferreira is professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include history of women, children, race, sex, and crime in premodern Europe, with a focus on early modern Portugal. She published her monograph Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal in 2015 (Ashgate).

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