Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World

ISBN-13: 9781472479945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 330 str.

Kimberly Anne Coles; Eve Keller

Opis

All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how the body’s transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it.

Spis treści

Introduction (Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller);  I. Debates and Directions;  1. Ain’t I a Ladie?: Race, Sexuality, and Early Modern Women Writers (Melissa E. Sanchez);  2. Early Modern Bodies that Matter (Mario DiGangi);  3. Regendering the Sublime and the Beautiful: Shakespeare’s Cleopatra and Feminist Formalism (Katherine B. Attié);  II. Authorship and Patronage;  4. Women and Literary Production (Stephen Guy-Bray);  5. Ambiguities of Female Authorship and the Accessible Archive (Marcy North);  6. Patterns of Print: Women’s Textual Patronage in the "Early" Early Modern Period (Patricia Pender);  7. Picturing the Agency of Widows: Female Patronage among the Gentry and the Middling Sort of Elizabethan England (Tarnya Cooper);  8. Women’s Labor at the Little Gidding Harmonies (Whitney Trettien);  III. The Matter of Reform;  9. "A Witch! Who is not?": Demonic Contagion, Gender, and Class in The Witch of Edmonton (Mary Floyd-Wilson);  10. "A Woman’s Logicke": Puritan Women Writers and the Rejection of Education (Christina Luckyj);  11. Prosopopoeia, Gender, and Religion: The Poetry of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (Rosalind Smith);  12. Dying Offstage: Gender and Martyrdom in 1 Henry VI (Elizabeth Williamson);  IV. Bodies of Knowledge;  13. Flesh-Eaters: Gender, Bodies, and Labor in Early Modern Art and Literature (Karen Raber);  14. "Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron": Ingredients, Instructions, and the Early Modern Recipe Book (Gitanjali Shahani and Emily S. Farris);  15. "From a Drudge, to … a Cook": Hidden and Ostentatious Labor in the Early Modern Household (Mary Trull and Rebecca Laroche);  16. "[T]he Monkey duchess all undressed": Simians, Satire, and Women (Holly Dugan);  17. Gender, Knowledge, and the Medical Marketplace: The Case of Margaret Cavendish (Laura L. Knoppers);  V. The Place of Production;  18. Counter-Narratives of Survival: Amerindian and African Women in Early Caribbean Literatures (Julie Chun Kim); 19. Constructing White Privilege: Transatlantic Slavery, Reproduction, and the Segregation of the Marriage Plot in the late Seventeenth Century (Valerie Forman)