Autore
Hohkamp, Michaela

Titolo
The «Red Cap» Factor. The «Deceased Wife’s Sister» or the «Deceased Sister’s Husband»? A Gender-specific Perspective on Kinship Discourses and Practices in Early Modern History
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 178 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 51 - Pagina finale: 69

This article aims to explore the historical ways in which kinship configurations were thought of and talked about in the early modern period, from a gendered perspective. This article demonstrates that the so-called «deceased wife’s sister», one of the most debated figures in early modern discourse on incest, is a product of a male-centered perspective. Shifting the focus from the «deceased wife’s sister» to the «deceased sister’s husband» reveals different perspectives on a social, economic and emotional blank space that occurred in early modern households after a wife deceased. It should be shown, that even seemingly timeless and gender-neutral designations of kinship positions and degrees have a gender-specific history that shaped social relationships such as kinship and also genealogical matters. Discourses on kinship can be recognized that way as the product of gender-specific historical practices.



SICI: 0301-6307(2025)178:1<51:T«CFT«>2.0.ZU;2-P
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1408/119354
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