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Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women

Margaret Mikesell and Adele Seeff, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 2003. 380 pages, index.

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The volume grows out of the 2000 symposium, "Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture and Change," and collects all plenary papers presented at the symposium as well as brief workshop summaries. As with the three 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. Here, the conversations included reflection upon the history and future of early modern women's studies. As we stood at the threshold of the new millennium it seemed appropriate to examine the past and the future of scholarship on early modern women. We also explored the tension that exists between the study of women and of gender. When is a focus on women appropriate, and when is it more fruitful to discuss gender? What do we learn from each? What is hidden?

Contents:

• Margaret Mikesell, Introduction
• Anne Lake Prescott, "'And Then She Fell on a Great Laughter': Tudor Diplomats read Marguerite de Navarre"
• Wendy Heller, "Of Bears, Satyrs, and Diana's Kisses: Metamorphoses in Early Modern Opera"
• Garthine Walker, "Just Stories: Telling Tales of Infant Death in Early Modern England"
• Diane Purkiss, "Losing Babies, Losing Stories: Attending to Women's Confessions in Scottish Witch Trials"
• Jean E. Howard, "The Evidence of Fiction: Women's Relationship to Goods in London City Drama"
• Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, "The Bride and Her Donora in Renaissance Florence"
• Judith Baskin, "Jewish Women's Piety and the Impact of Printing in Early Modern Europe"
• Barbara B. Diefendorf, "Discerning Spirits: Women and Spiritual Authority in Counter-Reformation France"
• Elaine V. Beilin, "'The World reproov'd': Writing Faith and History in England"
• Sara Jayne Steen "'I've Never Been this Serious': Necrophilia and the Teacher of Early Modern Literature"
• Laura Gowing, "Bodies and Stories"
• Karen-Edis Barzman, "The Subject of 'Woman' and the Discipline of Early Modern Studies: Jemima Wilkinson and the Publick Universal Friend"
• Alison Findlay, Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, and Gweno Williams, "Elite Fabrications: Staging Seventeenth Century Drama by Women"
• Louise Green, Patricia Herron, Eric N. Lindquist, Yelena Luckert, Judy Markowitz, Alan Mattlage, and Susanna van Sant, with Marian Burright and Scott Burright, "The Study of Early Modern Women and the World Wide Web: A University of Maryland Libraries Database"