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GOODS
This plenary addressed the materials
of early modern existence--the stuff of life--as they relate to women
and gender. Topics included the worlds of domesticity, objects of art
and pleasure, the body in health and illness, work, travel, the market,
science, crafts and technologies, and war. How did women function as inventors,
workers, consumers, and artists? How do the changing structures of trade,
technology and work shift gender relations? How are the material and artistic
lives of women affected by their involvement in changing technologies,
in crafts such as agriculture, artistic production, the book trade, the
making of clothes and utensils, and the circulation of goods and objects?
How do literature and the arts represent and use these goods, relations,
and objects? How do our experiences with the contemporary global economy
and the electronic revolution shape how we perceive and study these subjects
in the past?
Jean E. Howard
(E), Columbia University
Jacqueline
Marie Musacchio (AH), Vassar College.
Pamela O. Long
(HSc), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderator: Georgianna Ziegler, The Folger Shakespeare Library
(A)Art, (AH)Art History, (CL)Comparative Literature, (E)English Literature, (F)French Literature, (H)History, (HSc)History of Science, (HU)Humanities, (JS)Judaic Studies, (L)Law, (LSc)Library Science, (I)Italian, (M)Music, (RS)Religious Studies, (PH)Philosophy, (SP)Spanish, (TH)Theater, (WS)Women's Studies