State of Virginity Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

Name: State of Virginity Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State
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ISBN: 9780472032150

ISBN-10: 0472032151

ISBN-13: 9780472032150

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ulrike Strasser

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In premodern Germany, both the emerging centralized government and the powerful Catholic Church redefined gender roles for their own ends. Ulrike Strasser's interdisciplinary study of Catholic state-building examines this history from the vantage point of the virginal female body. Focusing on Bavaria, Germany's first absolutist state, Strasser recounts how state authorities forced chastity upon lower-class women to demarcate legitimate forms of sexuality and maintain class hierarchies. At the same time, they cloistered groups of upper-class women to harness the spiritual authority associated with holy virgins to the political authority of the state. The state finally recruited upper-class…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Strasser is Associate Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies, and Core Faculty in Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine.