Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
About the Book Series
The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Routledge series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.
Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Edith Snook
June 10, 2019
A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts,...
Boccaccio's Heroines: Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society
1st Edition
By Margaret Franklin
May 07, 2019
In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's Famous Women as incoherent and fractured, Franklin argues that the text offers a remarkably consistent, coherent and comprehensible treatise concerning the appropriate functioning of women in society. In this cross disciplinary study of a ...
Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688
1st Edition
By Mihoko Suzuki
August 23, 2018
Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of ...
Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520–1580: Negotiating Power
1st Edition
By Katherine A. McIver
October 27, 2017
Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decoration of the domestic interior - as opposed to patronage of the fine arts (painting, sculpture and ...
Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Allison Levy
June 14, 2017
Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider ...
The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1st Edition
By George Antony Thomas
May 25, 2017
The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz examines the role of occasional verse in the works of the celebrated colonial Mexican nun. The poems that Sor Juana wrote for special occasions (birthdays, funerals, religious feasts, coronations, and the like) have been considered ...
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England
1st Edition
By Caroline Bicks
May 11, 2017
At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending ...
Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Hills
March 29, 2017
Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe. In recent years scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which architecture plays a part in the ...
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance
1st Edition
By Andrea Pearson
March 29, 2017
Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author ...
Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England
1st Edition
Edited
By Douglas A. Brooks
March 29, 2017
The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself. The essays in this volume bring into focus a remarkably important and complex phase of this long history. In this ...
Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800
1st Edition
By Nicole Pohl
March 29, 2017
The first full length study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, this book explores the sophisticated correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is mainly driven by conceptual questions and thus seeks to link theoretical debates ...
Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many-Headed Melodies
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomasin LaMay
March 06, 2017
Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents, at home, and as rulers. Musical Voices of Early Modern Women adds to the mix of early modern studies a volume that correlates women's ...