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Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World book cover

1st Edition

Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World

Edited By Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Copyright 2015
398 Pages
by Routledge

398 Pages
by Routledge

398 Pages
by Routledge
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How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in... Read more

Introduction



Part I Frameworks



1 History in the Present Tense: Feminist Theories, Spatialized Epistemologies, and Early Mordern Embodiment Valerie Traub



2 Early Modern Gender and the Global Turn Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks



3 Gender and Representation in the Early Modern Hispanic World Charlene Villasenor Black



Part II Embodied Environments



4 Body Language: Keeping Secrets in Early Modern Narartives Gerhild Scholz Williams



5 Bodies by the Book: Remapping Reputation in the Account of Anne Greene and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing  Tara Pederson



6 Envisioning a Global Environment for Blessed Teresa of Avila in 1614: The Beatification Decorations for S. Maria della Scala in Rome Pamela M. Jones



7 Re-Placing Gender in Elizabethan Gardens Sara L. French



8 Attending to Fishwives: Views from Seventeenth-Century London and Amsterdam Alena Buis, Christi Spain-Savage, and Myra E. Wright



Part III Communities and Networks



9 Baby Jesus in a Box: Commerce and Enclosure in an Early Modern Convent Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt



10 Within and Without: Women's Networks and the Early Modern Roman Convent Kimberlyn Montford



11 Women's Kinship Networks: A Meditation on Creative Genealogies and Historical Labor Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Julie A. Eckerle, Michelle M. Dowd, and Megan Matchinske



12 Navigating Shakespearean Representations of Female Collaboration John Garrison, Kyle Pivetti, and Vanessa Rapatz



Part IV Exchanges



13 Guides to Marriage and "Needful Travel" in Early Modern England Ann Christensen



14 The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in Sixteenth-to Early Seventeenth- Century British Literature and Culture Bernadette Andrea



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Biography

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA.

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