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.
Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan
1st Edition
By Lucienne Thys-Senocak
November 10, 2016
Examined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth century shaped the political and cultural agenda of the Ottoman court. Captured in Russia at the age of ...
The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714: Political Pornography and Prostitution
1st Edition
By Melissa M. Mowry
November 10, 2016
With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography. This book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in ...
Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America
1st Edition
By Angela Vietto
November 10, 2016
Exploring the wealth of writings by early American women in a broad spectrum of genres, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America presents one of the few synthetic approaches to early US women’s writing. Through an examination of the strategic choices writers made as they constructed their ...
Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing
1st Edition
By Julie A. Eckerle
October 31, 2016
Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. In so doing, it operates at the intersection of several recent trends: interest in women's contributions to autobiography; greater awareness of ...
Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660
1st Edition
By Marcus Nevitt
October 26, 2016
Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, ...
Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe
1st Edition
By Kathleen P. Long
October 19, 2016
Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent ...
Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew
1st Edition
By Matthew Biberman
October 19, 2016
Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that antisemitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's ...
Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrea Pearson
October 19, 2016
As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays ...
Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700
1st Edition
By Catie Gill
October 19, 2016
Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such ...
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood
1st Edition
Edited
By Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh
October 10, 2016
Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructions of childhood in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, England, France and Spain. The essays are grouped around the themes of celebration ...
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles
1st Edition
By David P. LaGuardia
September 30, 2016
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual ...
Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
By Jennifer Munroe
September 12, 2016
Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the ...