TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiesner,Merry E.
TI  - Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity /edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
T2  - Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
SN  - 9048550939
AV  - HQ1150 .C435 2021
KW  - Women
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 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; 2; 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; 2; b
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