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.
'Shall She Famish Then?': Female Food Refusal in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Nancy A. Gutierrez
September 23, 2003
Nancy Gutierrez's exploration of female food refusal during the early modern period contributes to the ongoing conversation about female subjectivity and agency in a number of ways. She joins such scholars as Gail Kern Paster, Jonathan Sawday, and Michael Schoenfeldt, who locate early modern ideas...
The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence
1st Edition
By Natalie R. Tomas
September 10, 2003
The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power ...
Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury
1st Edition
By Helen Berry
June 04, 2003
Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the ...
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France
1st Edition
By Susan Broomhall
July 25, 2002
Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of ...
Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741–1790: Actress, Philosophe and Feminist
1st Edition
By Felicia Gordon, P.N. Furbank
November 15, 2001
The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens an exciting new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and, most strikingly, entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, ...
Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720: From Voice to Print
1st Edition
By Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
May 28, 2001
In this new study, Elizabeth Goldsmith continues her pursuit of issues treated in her earlier books on conversation, epistolary writing, and the female voice in literature. She examines how French women in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries first came to publish their private life ...