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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