Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women

Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women

Essays Presented to Hilda L. Smith

Haude, Sigrun; Zook, Melinda S.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

280

Mole

9781032923918

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Contents: Introduction, Melinda S. Zook. Part I Challenging Cultural and Social Traditions: The boundaries of womanhood in the early modern imaginary, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks; Women and guns in early modern London, Lois G. Schwoerer; Fiscal citizens: female investors in public finance before the South Sea Bubble, Barbara J. Todd. Part II Challenging Scientific and Intellectual Traditions: The microscopist as voyeur: Margaret Cavendish's critique of experimental philosophy, Lisa T. Sarasohn; Women, Anglican orthodoxy, and the Church in ages of danger, Melinda S. Zook; Emilie Du ChActelet and the Enlightenment's Querelles des femmes, Judith P. Zinsser; Charlotte Lennox and her challenge to the orthodoxies of Shakespeare criticism, Ann Thompson. Part III Challenging Political and Legal Traditions: Daughters of Coke: women's legal discourse in England, 1642-1689, Mihoko Suzuki; 'Willing to go if they had their clothes': early modern women and indentured servitude, Anna Suranyi; Epilogue - women theorize the powers of the 'powerless': the case of Virginia Woolf, Berenice A. Carroll. Selected publications of Hilda L. Smith; Bibliography; Index.
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