Format:
1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
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ISBN:
9789048550937
Series Statement:
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789463729321
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Challenging women's agency and activism in early modernity Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021 ISBN 9789463729321
Language:
English
Keywords:
Frau
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Engagement
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Aktivismus
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Geschichte 1600-1800
Author information:
Wiesner, Merry E. 1952-
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