Publications
Structures and Subjectivities: Attending
to Early Modern Women
Joan E. Hartman and Adele Seeff, eds. Newark:
University of Delaware Press; 2007. 377 pages, index.
This book can be obtained through The
University of Delaware Press or Amazon.com.
The volume grows out of the 2003 symposium, Structures
and Subjectivities, and collects all plenary papers presented
at the symposium as well as brief workshop summaries. As
with the four 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. Its title calls attention to what we
can and probably cannot know about women in the early modern
period. The first section, "Geographies and Polities," considers
the geographical boundaries---regions, nations, cities, and
country---and the institutions---political, economic, and religious---that
framed women's lives. In the second section, "Degree,
Priority, and Place," scholars address the gendering of
hierarchies and the power of place in constructing women's
lives. The third plenary, "The Built Environment," discusses,
literally, the spaces in the early modern period that women
constructed, inhabited, traveled, and worked in, and, by extension,
such things as literary, artistic, and musical conventions
that both enabled and constrained their artistic production. Finally,
in the fourth and last section, "Pedagogies," scholars
deal with the structures in which teachers and students pursue
the study of early modern women: institutions, departments,
and classrooms.
Contents:
- Joan E. Hartman, Introduction
- Adrian W. B. Randolph, "Renaissance
Genderscapes"
- Alison Weber, "Locating Holiness in
Early Modern Spain: Convents, Caves, and Houses
- Joanne M. Ferraro, "Representing Women
in Early Modern Italian Economic History"
- Craig A. Monson, "The Perilous, Enchanting
Allure of Convent Singing"
- Dorothy Ko, "Shoes and Fashion: The
Cosmology of Female Desires in China"
- Susan S. Lanser, "The Political Economy
of Same-Sex Desire"
- Margaret R. Hunt, "Women in Ottoman
and Western European Law Courts: Were Western Women Really the
Luckiest Women in the World?"
- Elizabeth V. Chew, "Inhabiting the
Great Man's House: Women and Space at Monticello"
- Carole Collier Frick, "Picture Perfect:
Female Performance and Social Liminality in the Florentine
Renaissance City"
- Naomi J. Miller, "A Womb of One's Own:
Constructing Maternal Space in Early Modern England and Beyond"
- Julia Marciari Alexander, "The Early
Modern Woman in the Twenty-First Century Museum"
- Susanne Woods, "But Is It Any Good?
The Value of Teaching Early Modern Writers"
- Allyson M. Poska, "Managing Stress:
Connecting Research and Pedagogy"
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