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.
Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie D. Campbell, Anne R. Larsen
September 08, 2016
An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's participation in literary cultures, this essay collection concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple ...
Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint
1st Edition
By Penny Howell Jolly
August 26, 2016
Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing ...
Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400–1700: Form and Persuasion
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann Crabb, Jane Couchman
August 26, 2016
In response to a growing interest, among historians as well as literary critics, in women's use of the epistolary genre, Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion analyzes persuasive techniques in the personal correspondence of late medieval and early modern women. It includes ...
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality
1st Edition
Edited
By Ania Loomba, Melissa E Sanchez
July 11, 2016
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017 Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism and ...
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Nora E. Jaffary
April 15, 2016
When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded and participated in multiple ways. By adopting a comprehensive view of female agency, the essays in this collection reveal the varied ...
Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650
1st Edition
By Haruko Nawata Ward
March 28, 2009
Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the ...
English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Battle of the Sexes, 1476-1557
1st Edition
By Anne E.B. Coldiron
February 28, 2009
Bringing to light new material about early print, early modern gender discourses, and cultural contact between France and England in the revolutionary first phase of English print culture, this book focuses on a dozen or so of the many early Renaissance verse translations about women, marriage, sex...
Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility
1st Edition
By Johanna Rickman
November 28, 2008
Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Since members of the nobility were not generally brought before the ecclesiastical courts, which had jurisdiction ...
Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France
1st Edition
By Rebecca M. Wilkin
November 28, 2008
Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. Rebecca Wilkin focuses on the contradictory representations of women from roughly ...
Finding the Family in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Ewan, Janay Nugent
October 17, 2008
In this interdisciplinary collaboration, an international group of scholars have come together to suggest new directions for the study of the family in Scotland circa 1300-1750. Contributors apply tools from across a range of disciplines including art history, literature, music, gender studies, ...
Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700
1st Edition
By Tamara Harvey
September 28, 2008
Inventive in its approach and provocative in its analysis, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey here compares ...
Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Society: Finland and the Wider European Experience
1st Edition
By Raisa Maria Toivo
August 19, 2008
How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a successful farmstead? Why would men use a frying pan for cattle magic? Why did witches keep talking about the children? What kind of a relation did Finnish witches have with authority and power? These are among the ...