Women's Voices

Echoes of Life Experiences in the Alps and the Plain (17TH -19TH Centuries)
Stefania BIANCHI,Miriam NICOLI
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Histoire (Éditions Alphil)
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Éditions Alphil
Date de publication
12 octobre 2023
Résumé
The volume is centred on the voices of women belonging to various generations, religious faiths and social classes, and presents a range of possible life courses for women in the Alps during the ancien régime and the early 19th century. Focusing on complex lived experiences that have emerged froma gender-conscious reading of the sources, the contributions illustrate how migration led women to take on roles of responsibility, or to follow their husbands in their careers as artists, traders and businessmen. There also emerges a widespread literacy that is combined with practical skills andknowledge marked by biological, legal and religious preconceptions: features that permeated the communities studied, where ties of family, religion and patronage prevail upon the dichoto ... Lire la suite
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Date de première publication du titre 12 octobre 2023
ISBN 9782889305216
EAN-13 9782889305216
Référence 126695-87
Nombre de pages de contenu principal 300
Format 15.6 x 22.5 x 1.7 cm
Poids 477 g

Table of Contents

Anne Montenach

Foreword

Stefania Bianchi and Miriam Nicoli

Introduction

Part I. Agency and Daily Life: Material Needs

and Feelings in Female Writings

Miriam Nicoli

A Network of Words: Three Generations of Women in the Papers of an Alpine Family (18th-19th Centuries

Camille Caparos

Writings in Absence: Being Seigneuresses in the French Pre-Alps in the 18th Century

Ernest Menolfi

Sabine Gonzenbach's Report About her Unhappy Marriage, or an Egodocument With a "Second Truth"...

Part II . Faith and Belonging: Personal Freedoms in the Confines Defined by Communities and Confraternities

Marco Bettassa

Women, Religious Conversions and Waldensianism: Persistence and Room for Action (17th and 18th Century)

Sandro Guzzi-Heeb

Women, Sex, Religion: Evolutions in Gender Relations in an Alpine Society between 1700 and 1850

Aline Johner

An Increasingly Gendered Religion: the Targeted Audience of Brotherhoods in the Valais Alps (18th-19th Centuries)...........

Part III. Duties and Rights: the Alchemy of the Female Economic Contribution in Patriarchal Societies

Marina Cavallera

The Contradictory Condition of Women: Legal Immobility and Social Dynamics in Pre-Alpine Lombardy in the Early Modern Age

Stefania Bianchi

Women, Judges and Notaries: the Legal Rights of Women in Early Modern Italian Part of Switzerland (17th-19th Centuries)..

Part IV. Bodies and Destinies:

Wet Nurses, Healers and Victims of Violence

Rolando Fasana

The Unsaid of Microhistory: Anthroponymy of Wet-Nursing. The Wet Nurses of Southern Ticino and the Ancient Province of Como (18th-19th Centuries)......................

Madline Favre

What Sources can we use to Document Women's Role in Health Practices in the Alpine Context? The Case of Valais in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Federica Re

Responding to Sexual Violence.Female Agency and Rape Trials in the Province of Como (1820-1833)

Patrizia Audenino

Conclusions

List of Contributors

List of Figures

The volume is centred on the voices of women belonging to various generations, religious faiths and social classes, and presents a range of possible life courses for women in the Alps during the ancien régime and the early 19th century. Focusing on complex lived experiences that have emerged froma gender-conscious reading of the sources, the contributions illustrate how migration led women to take on roles of responsibility, or to follow their husbands in their careers as artists, traders and businessmen. There also emerges a widespread literacy that is combined with practical skills andknowledge marked by biological, legal and religious preconceptions: features that permeated the communities studied, where ties of family, religion and patronage prevail upon the dichotomy of public sphere/private sphere.Starting from individual trajectories, the contributions therefore deal with the web of complex social networks that served to sustain the mutual autonomies as well as the strategies of living together and surviving. The vitality and agency of the female figure presented in the essays help undo the image of backwardness and passivity often associated with women from the mountain regions.With the contributions of: Patrizia Audenino, Marco Bettassa, StefaniaBianchi, Camille Caparos, Marina Cavallera, Rolando Fasana, Madline Favre,Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, Aline Johner, Ernest Menolfi, Anne Montenach, MiriamNicoli, Frederica Re.

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