«Sposa, figlia, sorella e vecchia matre». Invecchiare donna in età moderna, tra demografia e cultura

New work in the history of aging demands that we integrate “hard” approaches such as demography and physiology with “soft” cultural approaches. This article considers the life stages of early modern Italian urban elite women, to argue that society compelled them to age earlier in cultural terms than...

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Main Author: P. Renée Baernstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2006-11-01
Series:Storia delle Donne
Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/2441