Singlewomen in the European past, 1250-1800 / edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide.

Singlewomen in the European past, 1250-1800 / edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1999.

vi, 352 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A singular past / Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide
Singlewomen in medieval and early modern Europe : the demographic perspective / Maryanne Kowaleski

'It is not good that (wo)man should be alone' : elite responses to singlewomen in high medieval Paris / Sharon Farmer
Single by law and custom / Susan Mosher Stuard
Sex and the singlewoman / Ruth Mazo Karras
Transforming maidens : singlewomen's stories in Marie de France's Lais and later French courtly narratives / Roberta L. Krueger
Having her own smoke : employment and independence for singlewomen in Germany, 1400-1750 / Merry E. Wiesner
Singlewomen in early modern Venice / Monica Chojnacka
Marital status as a category of difference : singlewomen and widows in early modern England / Amy M. Froide
The sapphic strain : English lesbians in the long eighteenth century / Margaret R. Hunt
Singular politics : the rise of the British nation and the production of the old maid / Susan S. Lanser.

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

HQ800.2 .S59 1999