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Record Number: 2955 Author(s)/Creator(s): Dekker , Rudolf Michel. Contributor(s): Title: Getting to the Source: Women in the Medieval and Early Modern Netherlands Source: Journal of Women's History 10, 2 (Summer 1998): Pages 165 - 188. Description: Article Type: Journal Article Subject (See Also): Netherlands Women's History Award Note: Geographic Area: Low Countries Century: General Primary Evidence: Illustrations: Table: Abstract: This survey of old and recent literature about Dutch women in medieval and early modern times discusses power and politics, labor, religion, criminality and prostitution, family, body and sexuality, arts and sciences, and, finally, image and self-image. Women in the Netherlands share a history with other European women, but they also were distinctive in some respects. Beguines, women of the Modern Devotion movement, kloppen (semireligious women), midwives, female cross-dressers, and prostitutes give Dutch women's history a character of its own. What Dutch scholars call "egodocuments," such as autobiographies, diaries, and letters, are especially important because women's voices can be heard. [Reproduced by permission of Indiana University Press (at http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals)]. Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: Erasmus University Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 1998. Language: English ISSN/ISBN: 10427961

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