TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higginbotham,Jennifer
ED  - Project Muse
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / 
T2  - Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
SN  - 9781474429801
AV  - PR428.G57 H54 2013
U1  - 820.935234209031 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Girls
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 16th century
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Girls in literature
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-219) and index; 'A wentche, a gyrle, a damsell' : defining early modern girlhood -- Roaring girls and unruly women : producing femininities -- Female infants and the engendering of humanity -- Where are the girls in English renaissance drama? -- Voicing girlhood : women's life writing and narratives of childhood -- Epilogue : mass-produced languages and the end of touristic choices; Open Access
N2  - The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/64118/
ER  -