Routledge companion to women, sex, and gender in the early British colonial world / edited by Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coles, Kimberly Anne, 1966- editor.

Keller, Eve, 1960- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Great Britain--History.

Women.

Women--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Sex role--Great Britain--History.

Sex role.

Sex role--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Sex--Great Britain--History.

Sex.

Sex--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 330 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"All essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how the body's transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of the body--in social and political terms--gives it shape."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction : sex education / Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller

Part I. Debates and directions. Ain't I a Ladie? : race, sexuality, and early modern women writers / Melissa E. Sanchez

Early modern bodies that matter / Mario DiGangi

Regendering the sublime and the beautiful : Shakespeare's Cleopatra and feminist formalism / Katherine B. Attie ́

Part II. Authorship and patronage. Women and literary production / Stephen Guy-Bray

Ambiguities of female authorship and the accessible archive / Marcy L. North

Patterns of print : women's textual patronage in the "early" early modern period / Patricia Pender

Picturing the agency of widows : female patronage among the gentry and the middling sort of Elizabethan England / Tarnya Cooper

Women's labor and the Little Gidding harmonies / Whitney Trettien

Part III. The matter of reform. "A witch! Who is not?" : demonic contagion, gender, and class in The witch of Edmonton Mary Floyd-Wildon

"A Womans Logicke" : Puritan women writers and the rejection of education / Christina Luckyj

Prosopopoeia, gender, and religion : the poetry of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots / Rosalind Smith

Dying offstage : gender and martyrdom in 1 Henry VI / Elizabeth Williamson

Part IV. Bodies of knowledge. Flesh-eaters : gender, bodies, and labor in early modern art and literature / Karen Raber

"Add thereto a tiger's chaudron" : ingredients, instructions, and the early modern recipe book / Gitanjali Shahani and Emily S. Farris

"From a drudge, to...a cook" : hidden and ostentatious labor in the early modern household / Mary Trull and Rebecca Laroche

"[T]he monkey duchess all undressed" : simians, satire, and women in seventeenth-century England / Holly Dugan

Gender, knowledge, and the medical marketplace : the case of Margaret Cavendish / Laura L. Knoppers

Part V. The place of productionhe witch of Edmonton Counter-narratives of survival : Amerindian and African women in early Caribbean literatures / Julie Chun Kim

Constructing white privilege : transatlantic slavery, reproduction, and the segregation of the marriage plot in the late seventeenth century / Valerie Forman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781472479945

1472479947

OCLC:

1008984477