Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity /edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks -- Part I: Choosing and Creating -- 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency -- Attending to Early Modern Women in the Material History of Intoxication -- Angela McShane -- 2. Setting up House -- Artisan Women's Trousseaux in Seventeenth-Century Bologna -- Joyce de Vries -- 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance -- Susan Dinan, Karen Nelson, and Michele Osherow -- Part II: Confronting Power -- 4. Confronting Women's Actions in History -- Female Crown Fief Holders in Denmark -- Grethe Jacobsen -- 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times?

Women and the Politics of Slander, Sedition, and Informing during the English Revolution -- Caroline Boswell -- 6. Why Political Theory is Women's Work -- How Moderata Fonte Reclaimed Liberty for Women inside and outside Marriage -- Caroline Castiglione -- 7. 'Wrestling the World from Fools' -- Teaching Historical Empathy and Critical Engagement in Traditional and Online Classrooms -- Jennifer Selwyn -- Part III: Challenging Representations -- 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter -- Margaret Cavendish's Challenge to the Early Modern Order of Things -- Mihoko Suzuki -- 9. The Agency of Portrayal

The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period -- Saskia Beranek and Sheila ffolliott -- 10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the 'Medieval Housebook' -- Andrea Pearson -- Part IV: Forming Communities -- 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont -- A Taste-Maker in the Continuum of Salon Society -- Julie D. Campbell -- 12. Religious Spaces in the Far East -- Women's Travel and Writing in Manila and Macao -- Sarah E. Owens -- 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts -- Reconsidering Women's Agency, Networks, and Relationships -- Theresa Kemp, Catherine Powell, and Beth Link -- Index

List of figures and tables -- Figure 1.1: Two eighteenth-century snuffboxes. Image Courtesy of John H Bryan II. -- Figure 1.2: Cowrie-shell snuffbox, dated 1748. Image courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery. -- Figure 1.3: Silver snuffbox. Image Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery. -- Figure 1.4: Snuffbox with a female textile worker. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II. -- Figure 1.5: Snuffbox with phallic image. Photo: author. -- Figure 1.6: Engraved snuff-gourd. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II. -- Figure 1.7: Knitting sheath front face. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II.

Figure 1.8: Knitting sheath rear face. Image courtesy of John H Bryan II. -- Figure 3.1: Esther and Ahasuerus (1665) (c) Victoria and Albert Museum, London. -- Figure 3.2: 'A Heroine Forcibly Enters a Jail to Liberate a Hero', Freer Sackler accession S1986.399, Purchase-Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, www.freersackler.si.edu/object/S19

Figure 8.1: Margaret Cavendish, Poems, or several Fancies in Verse. With the Animal Parliament, in Prose (London: A. Maxwell, 1668), frontispiece. Engraving by Abraham von Diepenbeeck. 720.h.28. (c)British Library Board.4.

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