Attending to early modern women : conflict and concord

Attending to early modern women : conflict and concord / edited by Karen Nelson.

This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and politica...

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Other Authors: Nelson, Karen L., 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Women and war > History.
Women and peace > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Women and peace
Women and war
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction: Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict and Concord / Amy M. Froide
  • I. Negotiations
  • 1. Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother / Craig Harline
  • 2. Getting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy / Colleen Reardon
  • 3. Workshop Summaries 1-6: Negotiations
  • II. Economies
  • 4. History's "Silent Whispers": Representing the Past Through Feeling and Form / Megan Matchinske
  • 5. Columbus's Sister: Female Agency and Women's Bodies in Early Modern Mediterranean and Atlantic Empires / Holly Hurlburt
  • 6. The Female Body in Islamic Law and Medicine: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics / Maya Shatzmiller
  • 7. Workshop Summaries 7-10: Economies
  • III. Faiths and Spiritualities
  • 8. Spaces for Agency: The View from Early Modern Female Religious Communities / Silvia Evangelisti
  • 9. Marian Devotion and Identity in Early Modern Indonesia: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka / Barbara Watson Andaya
  • 10. Workshop Summaries 11-18: Faiths and Spiritualities
  • IV. Pedagogies
  • 11. Gender Differentials in Honors Programs and Colleges / Susan E. Dinan
  • 12. Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath (ca. 1395) and Christine de Pizan, from Letter of the God of Love (1399) to City of Ladies (1405): A New Kind of Encounter Between Male and Female / Albert Rabil Jr.
  • 13. Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation / Eleonora Stoppino
  • 14. Workshop Summaries 19-21: Pedagogies
  • Index
  • About the Contributors.

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