Gendering the portuguese-speaking world: from the middle ages to the present

• Type: Book
• Date: 2021

Authors

Bethencourt, Francisco (Editor) Other

Publisher

Brill

Leiden

Other information

DOI: 10.1163/9789004459397

Abstract (EN): This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 288

ISBN: 978-90-04-45672-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-90-04-45939-7

Collection: European expansion and indigenous response; 33