Negotiating feminism and faith in the lives and works of late medieval and early modern women / edited by Holly Faith Nelson and Adrea Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Holly Faith, editor.

Johnson, Adrea, editor.

Series:

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World Series ; v.25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women".

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women: An Introduction

Holly Faith Nelson and Adrea Johnson

Scriptural Exegesis and the Feminist Sisterhood

2. Teresa de Cartagena's Feminist Rhetoric and Theology

Gladys Robalino

3. Feminism and Italian Sacred Writings: A Growing Space for Female Authorship, 1500-1600

Clara Stella

4. Shaftesbury, Women Writers, and Deism

Michael Behrens

Female Freedom and Agency through Religious Enclosure

5. Mère Angélique Arnauld and the Paradoxes of Women's Enclosure

Natasha Duquette

6. "Nothing but a Union with God": Queer Religiosity in Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Megan Cole

Gender Equality through the Language of Faith

7. "A Plant in God's House": Botanical Metaphors in Early Modern Women's Poetry

Felicity Sheehy

8. The Christian Housewife and Midwife: Healthcare and Women's Authority in Early Modern Almanacs and Manuals

Melissa Kleinschmidt

Feminist Indirection and Disruption in the Religious Sphere

9. The Rhetoric and Aesthetic of Indirection: Women, Religion, and Power in the Works of Margaret Cavendish

Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker

10. Grief, Commemoration, and the Poetics of Disruption in the Works of Frances Norton

Nicole Garret

The Feminist Potential and Parameters of Religious Belief

11. Anne Dowriche and Elizabeth Cary as Writers of Early Modern History

Rachel M. De Smith Roberts

12. Both Enabling and Limiting: Religion as a Sponsor of Feminism in the Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Verses of Collier, Leapor, and Yearsley

Steve Van-Hagen

The Call For Female Liberty through the Language of Religion Beyond the Borders of Europe.

13. "Freer than Any Ladys in the Universe": Theologies of Liberty and Legalism in the Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Jordan Hall

14. "I Find No Curse in the Gospel of Christ": Private Judgment and the Gendering of Church Discipline in the Early American Republic

S. Spencer Wells

Bibliography

Index

List of Figures

Figure 1. "The Lady Grace Gethin" copper engraving of the Gethin Monument by James Cole (1723). Courtesy of the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Figure 2. "In All Estates I Have Learned to Be Contented," in Frances Norton, The Applause of Virtue (1705). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 3. "The Christian Lives To Day As If He Shall Ne'er See To Morrow Saith Tertul," Frontispiece, Frances Norton, Memento Mori (1705). Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.29.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-70047-0

90-485-6042-X

9781003700470

OCLC:

1443548907