Table of Contents

Anne Montenach

Foreword

Stefania Bianchi and Miriam Nicoli

Introduction

Part I. Agency and Daily Life: Material Needs

and Feelings in Female Writings

Miriam Nicoli

A Network of Words: Three Generations of Women in the Papers of an Alpine Family (18th-19th Centuries

Camille Caparos

Writings in Absence: Being Seigneuresses in the French Pre-Alps in the 18th Century

Ernest Menolfi

Sabine Gonzenbach's Report About her Unhappy Marriage, or an Egodocument With a "Second Truth"...

Part II . Faith and Belonging: Personal Freedoms in the Confines Defined by Communities and Confraternities

Marco Bettassa

Women, Religious Conversions and Waldensianism: Persistence and Room for Action (17th and 18th Century)

Sandro Guzzi-Heeb

Women, Sex, Religion: Evolutions in Gender Relations in an Alpine Society between 1700 and 1850

Aline Johner

An Increasingly Gendered Religion: the Targeted Audience of Brotherhoods in the Valais Alps (18th-19th Centuries)...........

Part III. Duties and Rights: the Alchemy of the Female Economic Contribution in Patriarchal Societies

Marina Cavallera

The Contradictory Condition of Women: Legal Immobility and Social Dynamics in Pre-Alpine Lombardy in the Early Modern Age

Stefania Bianchi

Women, Judges and Notaries: the Legal Rights of Women in Early Modern Italian Part of Switzerland (17th-19th Centuries)..

Part IV. Bodies and Destinies:

Wet Nurses, Healers and Victims of Violence

Rolando Fasana

The Unsaid of Microhistory: Anthroponymy of Wet-Nursing. The Wet Nurses of Southern Ticino and the Ancient Province of Como (18th-19th Centuries)......................

Madline Favre

What Sources can we use to Document Women's Role in Health Practices in the Alpine Context? The Case of Valais in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Federica Re

Responding to Sexual Violence.Female Agency and Rape Trials in the Province of Como (1820-1833)

Patrizia Audenino

Conclusions

List of Contributors

List of Figures