The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / / Jennifer Higginbotham.
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and cultureJennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl'...
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