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Database information for Defining Gender

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• Coverage: 1450-1910
• Type(s) of Content: Full Text
• Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities ; Social Sciences
• Library of Congress Clasification: hq
• Short Description:
  Full text images of books, pamphlets, essays, and biographies on gender-related topics written between 1450 and 1910.
• Annotation:
  Contains complete scanned books, pamphlets, periodicals, collections of letters, biographies, short stories, novels, and poetry, as well as recent thematic essays by leading scholars in the field of Gender Studies which place the documents within a broad historical, literary and cultural context.

  Currently containing sections on Conduct and Politeness and Domesticity and the Family, Defining Gender includes some of the seminal texts used in Gender studies from authors such as Christine De Pisan, Daniel Defoe, Delarivier Manley, Margery Kempe, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Some key areas of behavior of men and women addressed include cookery, health, courtship, marriage and role of husband and wife, sexuality, courtly behavior, children, education, class, and religion and morality.