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The Prime of Their Lives: Wise Old Women in Pre-Industrial Europe

The Prime of Their Lives: Wise Old Women in Pre-Industrial Europe

Mulder-Bakker, Ab
Nip, R.

Hardcover

Series: Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, Book 10

General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 9042915331
ISBN13: 9789042915336
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Dec 31 2004
Pages: 186
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.78
Language: English
The contributions to this volume show that, in pre-industrial Europe, women in their prime, women, that is, who had reached maturity and were beyond fertility, but not yet in old age, constitute a separate category for historical and literary analysis. These wise old women, or WOWs, took on tasks in society which were essentially different from the ones they had taken on before, mainly in the household. The case studies presented here show that some of these women entered a second phase of creativity and productivity and were even able to fulfil their desires at the age of forty. Being able, at last, to find their authentic selves, they acquired a female voice of their own. For some of them, for example, Christine de Pizan, the age of forty even functioned as a trope of female authorship.

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