Plenary One: Geographies and Polities

|Plenary Speakers| |Workshops|

Geographies and polities each draw boundaries around space. What meanings did such geographies and polities have in the early modern period and how were those meanings gendered? In what kinds of polities did early modern women participate? To what extent were men the makers of polities and women their subjects? How and to what extent did women acquire identity or agency as inhabitants of geographies or polities? What did the experience of migration and/or exile mean for women? How did women's experiences of geographical and political spaces differ? Which set of boundaries mattered in which contexts? How are such issues represented—and gendered—in literature, art, history, religious studies, philosophy, and music?

Plenary Speakers:

• "The Construction of Female Theatrical Voices and Spaces in the Seventeenth Century: English and Spanish Women Dramatists." Marguerite Corporall, Alison Findlay, José Manuel Gonzalez, Rina Walthaus.
• "Creative Women: Fashioning an Identity and Community." Marjorie Och, Erith Jaffe-Berg, Anne R. Larsen, Amy Scott-Douglass.
• "Engendering the 'Four Nations' in the Seventeenth Century: (Re)Locating Women in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales." Kate Chedgzoy, Suzanne Trill.
• "Framing the Domestic in Early Modern England: Private Spaces/Public Matters." Emily MacMillan, Melissa Hull, Laura Lunger Knoppers, Cynthia Klekar.
• "Gender and Race Crossing the English Atlantic." Susan D. Amussen, Kim F. Hall, Jennifer Morgan.
• "Gender, Performance, and National Identity: Women and Seventeenth-Century European Theatre." Clare McManus, Karen Britland.
• "Structures and Subjectivities in Sixteenth-Century Gynecology, or How the Father of Medicine Reclaimed His Paternity." Monica H. Green, Helen King.
• "Virgin or Vixen? Considering Models of Female Autonomy in Early Modern Europe." Blake de Maria, Holly S. Hurlbert.
• "Women and the Missionary Position? Gendering Encounters with the Ethnic Other in Quaker and Catholic Writings." Sylvia Brown, Paulomi Chakraborty, Karine Hopper, Kelly Laycock, Aida Patient, Kirsten Uszkalo.
• "Women and Religious Polities." Jane Donawerth, Margaret Rose Jaster, Anamaria Kothe, Karen Nelson, Michele Osherow.
• "Women's Sense of Space in the Age of European Overseas Expansion." Laura McGough, Bernadette Andrea, Elizabeth Horodowich, Aurora Wolfgang.