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Challenging women's agency and activism in early modernity /
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 inc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.