Masculinities, childhood, violence [electronic resource] : attending to early modern women--and men : proceedings of the 2006 symposium / edited by Amy E. Leonard and Karen L. Nelson.

"Sixth symposium sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, [University of Maryland]"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : attending to early modern women-and men / Amy E. Leonard -- pt. 1. Theorizing early modern masculinity and maleness: Showing the heart : love, friendship, and anatomy in early modern portraiture / Sarah R. Cohen ; Manhood, patriarchy, and gender in early modern history / Alexandra Shepard ; Hymeneal instruction / Margaret Ferguson -- pt. 2. Childhood: Sugar and spice and everything nice : gender difference in German primary school education / Amy E. Leonard ; All you need is love : music, romance, and adolescent recreation in sixteenth-century France ; The virgin's body and early modern surgeons / Valeria Finucci -- pt. 3. Violence: Bosch's Iron age / Margaret D. Carroll ; English child-murder news and the culture of equity / Randall Martin ; Violence, gender, and race in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic / Susan D. Amussen -- pt. 4. Pedagogies: Telling tales : women in the early modern Arab world / Judith E. Tucker ; Masculinity, manliness, and mediocrity : the case of Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541-85) / Caroline P. Murphy.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.