Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780367880149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 398 str.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Opis

How did gender figure in the routes and spaces of the early modern world, both real and imagined, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? Essays in this volume address this question from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with topics key to the ’spatial turn’, such as borders and their permeability, actual and m

Spis treści

Introduction

Part I Frameworks

1 History in the Present Tense: Feminist Theories, Spatialized Epistemologies, and Early Mordern Embodiment Valerie Traub

2 Early Modern Gender and the Global Turn Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

3 Gender and Representation in the Early Modern Hispanic World Charlene Villasenor Black

Part II Embodied Environments

4 Body Language: Keeping Secrets in Early Modern Narartives Gerhild Scholz Williams

5 Bodies by the Book: Remapping Reputation in the Account of Anne Greene and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing  Tara Pederson

6 Envisioning a Global Environment for Blessed Teresa of Avila in 1614: The Beatification Decorations for S. Maria della Scala in Rome Pamela M. Jones

7 Re-Placing Gender in Elizabethan Gardens Sara L. French

8 Attending to Fishwives: Views from Seventeenth-Century London and Amsterdam Alena Buis, Christi Spain-Savage, and Myra E. Wright

Part III Communities and Networks

9 Baby Jesus in a Box: Commerce and Enclosure in an Early Modern Convent Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt

10 Within and Without: Women's Networks and the Early Modern Roman Convent Kimberlyn Montford

11 Women's Kinship Networks: A Meditation on Creative Genealogies and Historical Labor Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Julie A. Eckerle, Michelle M. Dowd, and Megan Matchinske

12 Navigating Shakespearean Representations of Female Collaboration John Garrison, Kyle Pivetti, and Vanessa Rapatz

Part IV Exchanges

13 Guides to Marriage and "Needful Travel" in Early Modern England Ann Christensen

14 The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in Sixteenth-to Early Seventeenth- Century British Literature and Culture Bernadette Andrea

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O autorze

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA.