In this Book
- Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Amsterdam University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of figures and tables
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 9-22
- PART I. Choosing and Creating
- Crafting Habits of Resistance
- pp. 85-104
- PART II. Confronting Power
- PART III. Challenging Representations
- PART IV. Forming Communities
Additional Information
ISBN
9789048550937
MARC Record
OCLC
1231651235
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-18
Language
English
Open Access
Yes