Publications
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.
This book can be obtained through The
University of Delaware Press by selecting here or Amazon.com by selecting
here.
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"
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