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Crossing Boundaries: Attending to Early Modern Women

Jane Donawerth and Adele Seeff, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 2000. 308 pages, index.

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The volume grows out of the 1997 Attending to Early Modern Women Symposium and collects all plenary papers presented at the symposium as well as brief workshop summaries. As with the two previous volumes in the Attending to Early Modern Women series, this volume addresses issues influencing scholarly discourse and pedagogy in the field of early modern women's studies: notions of the female self shaped through gendering the body; exploring crimes and legal procedures that were gendered "female," and the ways women's legal rights differed from men's; identifying where, when, and why early modern women traveled, and how other cultures were affected by female travelers; and finally, setting out the major issues that arise when teachers explore with their students the tangled differences of gender, race, sexuality, class, region, and religion.

Contents:

  • Katharine Park, "Dissecting the Female Body: From Women's Secrets to the Secrets of Nature"
  • Judith T. Zeitlin, "Making the Invisible Visible: Portraits of Desire and Constructions of Death in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China"
  • Suzanne G. Cusick, "A Soprano Subjectivity: Vocality, Power, and the Compositional Voice of Francesca Caccini"
  • Anne Llewellyn Barstow, "Witch Hunting as Woman Hunting: Persecution by Gender"
  • Jodi Bilinkoff, "Navigating the Waves (of Devotion): Toward a Gendered Analysis of Early Modern Catholicism"
  • Electa Arenal, "Sor Juana's Arch: Public Spectacle, Private Battle"
  • Karen Newman, "Armchair Travel"
  • Barbara F. McManus, "Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Teaching Early Women Writers"
  • Frances E. Dolan, "If we can't know what 'really' happened, why should we study the past?"
  • Martha Howell, "Directly from the Sources: Teaching Early Modern Women's History without the Narrative"
  • Alison Findlay, Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, and Gweno Williams, " (En)Gendering Performance: Staging Plays by Early Modern Women"