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State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State
University of Michigan Press, 2006 Cloth: 978-0-472-11351-4 | Paper: 978-0-472-03215-0 Library of Congress Classification BX1539.M8S83 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 943.304
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Winner: 2005 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women; Selected by the German Studies Association as one of the top five books of 2004 in early modern history "A fresh, original study of gender roles and religious ideology in the early modern Catholic state. . . . Using a rich array of archival sources, Strasser explores ways in which an increasingly centralized Bavarian government in Munich inaugurated marriage and convent reforms and a civil religion based on the veneration of the Virgin Mary. Her carefully selected case studies show how church and state collaborated to produce a shared discourse and consistent policies proscribing extramarital sex, and excluding those without property from marriage. " —Choice Ulrike Strasser is Associate Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies, and Core Faculty in Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine. See other books on: Catholic women | Christianity and politics | History of doctrines | Marriage | Sociology of Religion See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State
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University of Michigan Press, 2006
Cloth: 978-0-472-11351-4
Paper: 978-0-472-03215-0
Cloth: 978-0-472-11351-4
Paper: 978-0-472-03215-0
Winner: 2005 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women; Selected by the German Studies Association as one of the top five books of 2004 in early modern history
"A fresh, original study of gender roles and religious ideology in the early modern Catholic state. . . . Using a rich array of archival sources, Strasser explores ways in which an increasingly centralized Bavarian government in Munich inaugurated marriage and convent reforms and a civil religion based on the veneration of the Virgin Mary. Her carefully selected case studies show how church and state collaborated to produce a shared discourse and consistent policies proscribing extramarital sex, and excluding those without property from marriage. "
—Choice
Ulrike Strasser is Associate Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies, and Core Faculty in Religious Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
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