Man(ners) Maketh Woman : An Analysis of Dutch Male-Authored Women’s Advice Literature

This thesis analyses Adriaan Loosjes’ De Vrouw in de Vier Tijdperken Haars Levens (’The Woman inthe Four Stages of her Life’) and Gozewijn de Greuve’s Wilhelmina, een Handboek voor het VrouwelijkeGeslacht (‘Wilhelmina, a Guide for the Female Sex’). These two works of male-authored adviceliterature for women in the early nineteenth-century Netherlands are analysed in order to researchthe construction of gender. A woman’s life is first divided into four stages (girl, maiden, housewife,elderly woman) and then into the three most important aspects of her life (relationships, emotions,virtues &... Mehr ...