Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760

Author: Diane Purkiss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1134938942

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The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of overriding political concerns of the day, the feminist history of the early modern period is still a largely unwritten story. New feminist analysis can expose the conditions of production in which the history of the period was constructed: this revealing new Collection thereby exposes the untold stories which underpin the official texts. By beginning to explore this period from women's point of view, Women, Texts and Histories shows the crucial and fascinating ways in which women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended.

A History of Early Modern Women's Literature
A History of Early Modern Women's Literature

Author: Patricia Phillippy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1107137063

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This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

British Women's History
British Women's History

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Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780719046520

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This is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.

Sexualities in History
Sexualities in History

Author: Kim M. Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1135304769

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Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions.

Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England
Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England

Author: Erica Longfellow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-09-23

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1139456180

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This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums and yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, Lady Anne Southwell, Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hutchinson, among others, were both active negotiators of gender and active participants in wider theological debates. By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context, Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics and the role of women in defining gender and thus influencing religion and politics.

Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650
Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650

Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1903153328

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Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women's participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes. Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print --Book Jacket.

The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing
The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing

Author: Danielle Clarke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1317883829

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The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing provides an introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and social contexts. Covering a wide range of forms and genres, the author shows that rather than women conforming to the conventional 'chaste, silent and obedient' model, or merely working from the 'margins' of Renaissance culture, they in fact engaged centrally with many of the major ideas and controversies of their time. The book discusses many previously neglected texts and authors, as well as more familiar figures such as Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Isabella Whitney and Lady Mary Wroth, and draws attention to the importance of genre and forms of circulation in the production of meaning. The Politics of Early Modern Women will be of interest both to those encountering this material for the first time, and to students and scholars working in the fields of women's writing, gender studies, history and literature.