3.51 C Serving our Friends: Women's Alliances in Early Modern Britain poster

Title

3.51 C Serving our Friends: Women's Alliances in Early Modern Britain poster

Subject(s)

History
Faculty
Research, Presentation of

Description

A poster promoting a Scholarshp Matters faculty presentation by Dr. Amanda Herbert.

Date

February 21, 2013.

Creator(s)

The College of Arts & Humanities

Call Number

3.51 C

Statement of Rights

Christopher Newport University, All Rights Reserved

Text

Dr. Amanda Herbert is an assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University. She received her BA in history and Germanics from the University of Washington in 2001, and her PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University in 2010. She is a scholar of gender and sexuality, and specializes in early modern British annd European history. Her first book, Female Alliances: Gender, Identity and Friendship, is coming out with Yale University Press in 2013. Her second book is on spa culture in early modern Britain.
Dr. Herbert's presentation examines the construction and maintenance of women's sociable relationships in Britain and its first colonies. Through a close examination of artifacts, manuscripts and printed sources producsed by and for women, we will see that female friendships were critical to Britain's heightened trans-Atlantic communication and commerce in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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