IN PRAISE OF OLDER WOMEN.

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  • Author(s): Sbaraini, Ella
  • Source:
    History Today. Nov2019, Vol. 69 Issue 11, p74-81. 8p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      HISTORIANS; WIDOWS; SINGLE women; HUMAN sexuality; CONTRACEPTION; MOTHERHOOD
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on early modern historians obsessed by widows and spinsters have neglected the sexuality of other middle-aged women. It mentions mothers with limited contraception, women often began childbearing early in their marriages and middle-aged women's sexuality have centred on depictions of spinsters and widows. It also mentions motherhood often intersected with wifehood, heightening the sense of transgression and violated inaccessibility.