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.
Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others
1st Edition
Edited
By Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh
March 06, 2017
While the relationships between parents and children have long been a staple of critical inquiry, bonds between siblings have received far less attention among early modern scholars. Indeed, until now, no single volume has focused specifically on relations between brothers and sisters during the ...
Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England: 'Little Legacies' and the Materials of Motherhood
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Mazzola
December 02, 2016
Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and ...
Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances: Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Joyce de Vries
November 29, 2016
In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza ...
Education and Women in the Early Modern Hispanic World
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Teresa Howe
November 28, 2016
Considering the presence and influence of educated women of letters in Spain and New Spain, this study looks at the life and work of early modern women who advocated by word or example for the education of women. The subjects of the book include not only such familiar figures as Sor Juana and Santa...
Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
By Jennifer C. Vaught
November 28, 2016
The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern English literary works, this study examines the profound impact of the cultural shift in the English aristocracy from feudal warriors to ...
Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine A. McIver
November 28, 2016
Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered invisible or obscured by history or ...
English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625
1st Edition
Edited
By Micheline White
November 23, 2016
Contributing to the growing interest in early modern women and religion, this essay collection advances scholarship by introducing readers to recently recovered or little-studied texts and by offering new paradigms for the analysis of women's religious literary activities. Contributors underscore ...
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England
1st Edition
By Ruben Espinosa
November 17, 2016
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of ...
Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries
1st Edition
By Sally Anne Hickson
November 17, 2016
Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and ...
Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture
1st Edition
By Allison Levy
November 16, 2016
From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male ...
Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Michele Osherow
November 10, 2016
Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England documents the extent to which portrayals of women writers, rulers, and leaders in the Hebrew Bible scripted the lives of women in early modern England. Attending to a broad range of writing by Protestant men and women, including John Donne, Mary ...
Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa
1st Edition
By Ann Roberts
November 10, 2016
Starting from an inventory and other documents, Ann Roberts has identified some 30 works of art that originated from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. She here examines those objects commissioned for and made by the nuns during the fifteenth century; some of the objects included have never ...