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Figuring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-1700 /

Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a devi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harvey, Tamara, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Colección:Women and gender in the early modern world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Modesty's charge : feminist functionalism and seventeenth-century feminist theory
  • 'Now sisters-- impart your usefulnesse, and force' : Anne Bradstreet's feminist functionalism
  • 'Cuerpo luminoso' : body and soul in sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero sueño
  • 'I doe not thinke the body that dyes shall rise agayne' : Anne Hutchinson's mortalism as feminist functionalism
  • Femmes fortes : mysticism and the female apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation.