Ulrike Strasser

Home institution

University of California, Irvine

Research project

Obedient Brides: Masterless Women: Gender, the State, and Religious Change in Counterreformation Bavaria

The study focuses on the ways in which the Counterreformation affected women's lives and how gender in turn structured the processes of religious reform and Catholic state-building from the mid-16th to the early 18th century.

Course

HDS 2329: Saints, Witches, and Wives: Women and Gender in Reformation and Counterreformation Europe (Spring 2000)

Publications

• State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in the Early Modern Catholic State