UID:
kobvindex_HPB1231608614
Format:
1 online resource (312 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9048550939
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9789048550937
Series Statement:
Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
Content:
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wiesner-Hanks, Merry. Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2021
Language:
English
Keywords:
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