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Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World


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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.

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Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy

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 ...

Dominican Women and Renaissance Art The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa

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 ...

Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters

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 ...

English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Battle of the Sexes, 1476-1557

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...

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700

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 ...

Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood

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 ...

Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas

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 ...

Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse

Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse

1st Edition

By Pamela S. Hammons
May 28, 2010

An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of ...

Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain

Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain

1st Edition

By Grace E. Coolidge
January 28, 2011

Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and ...

Henrietta Maria Piety, Politics and Patronage

Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage

1st Edition

Edited By Erin Griffey
July 22, 2008

Compiled by art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, and historians, this essay collection is an innovative and interdisciplinary study of Queen Henrietta Maria and her multi-faceted roles and responsibilities. Elements of the queen's popular biography - her European identity and devout ...

Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

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 ...

Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600–1800 The Cloister Disclosed

Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600–1800: The Cloister Disclosed

1st Edition

By Barbara R. Woshinsky
October 28, 2010

Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French ...

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