Challenging women's agency and activism in early modernity / / edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks.
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both inc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource PDF, 312 pagina's, 3733762 bytes) :; illustraties. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Introduction
- Part I Choosing and Creating
- 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency
- 2. Setting up House
- 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance
- Part II Confronting Power
- 4. Confronting Women’s Actions in History
- 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times?
- 6. Why Political Theory is Women’s Work
- 7. ‘Wrestling the World from Fools’
- Part III Challenging Representations
- 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter
- 9. The Agency of Portrayal
- 10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the ‘Medieval Housebook’
- Part IV Forming Communities
- 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont
- 12. Religious Spaces in the Far East
- 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts
- Index