Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity / edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 1952-

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe--History.

Women.

Feminism.

History.

Europe.

Feminism--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Part I: Choosing and Creating

1. Bad Habits and Female Agency

Attending to Early Modern Women in the Material History of Intoxication

Angela McShane

2. Setting up House

Artisan Women's Trousseaux in Seventeenth-Century Bologna

Joyce de Vries

3. Crafting Habits of Resistance

Susan Dinan, Karen Nelson, and Michele Osherow

Part II: Confronting Power

4. Confronting Women's Actions in History

Female Crown Fief Holders in Denmark

Grethe Jacobsen

5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times?

Women and the Politics of Slander, Sedition, and Informing during the English Revolution

Caroline Boswell

6. Why Political Theory is Women's Work

How Moderata Fonte Reclaimed Liberty for Women inside and outside Marriage

Caroline Castiglione

7. 'Wrestling the World from Fools'

Teaching Historical Empathy and Critical Engagement in Traditional and Online Classrooms

Jennifer Selwyn

Part III: Challenging Representations

8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter

Margaret Cavendish's Challenge to the Early Modern Order of Things

Mihoko Suzuki

9. The Agency of Portrayal

The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period

Saskia Beranek and Sheila ffolliott

10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the 'Medieval Housebook'

Andrea Pearson

Part IV: Forming Communities

11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont

A Taste-Maker in the Continuum of Salon Society

Julie D. Campbell

12. Religious Spaces in the Far East

Women's Travel and Writing in Manila and Macao

Sarah E. Owens

13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts

Reconsidering Women's Agency, Networks, and Relationships

Theresa Kemp, Catherine Powell, and Beth Link

Index

List of figures and tables

Figure 1.1: Two eighteenth-century snuffboxes. Image Courtesy of John H Bryan II.

Figure 1.2: Cowrie-shell snuffbox, dated 1748. Image courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery.

Figure 1.3: Silver snuffbox. Image Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery.

Figure 1.4: Snuffbox with a female textile worker. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II.

Figure 1.5: Snuffbox with phallic image. Photo: author.

Figure 1.6: Engraved snuff-gourd. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II.

Figure 1.7: Knitting sheath front face. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II.

Figure 1.8: Knitting sheath rear face. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II.

Figure 3.1: Esther and Ahasuerus (1665) © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Figure 3.2: 'A Heroine Forcibly Enters a Jail to Liberate a Hero', Freer Sackler accession S1986.399, Purchase-Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, www.freersackler.si.edu/object/S19

Notes:

Figure 8.1: Margaret Cavendish, Poems, or several Fancies in Verse. With the Animal Parliament, in Prose (London: A. Maxwell, 1668), frontispiece. Engraving by Abraham von Diepenbeeck. 720.h.28. ©British Library Board.4.

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9789048550937

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99986815234

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