"Manning the Margins is provocative, timely, and very original and makes a significant contribution to a variety of fields, including French literary studies, early modern history of ideas, women's and gender studies, and masculinity studies. There is no other work that explores these questions in such depth and is so wide-ranging in its implications for a reevaluation of the period as a whole. Seifert's work is groundbreaking."
---Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College

"Manning the Margins innovatively synthesizes gender studies and early modern French texts, challenging...