Challenging women's agency and activism in early modernity
Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both inc...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
[2021]
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| Colección: | Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720315606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Introduction
- Part I Choosing and Creating
- 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency
- 2. Setting up House
- 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance
- Part II Confronting Power
- 4. Confronting Women’s Actions in History
- 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times?
- 6. Why Political Theory is Women’s Work
- 7. ‘Wrestling the World from Fools’
- Part III Challenging Representations
- 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter
- 9. The Agency of Portrayal
- 10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the ‘Medieval Housebook’
- Part IV Forming Communities
- 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont
- 12. Religious Spaces in the Far East
- 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts
- Index
