Crossing boundaries : attending to early modern women

Folger bibliographic ID: 188684
Folger call number: PN721 .C76 2000
Folger holdings ID: 226744

General notes

Papers from a symposium held Nov. 6-8, 1997, at the University of Maryland, College Park and sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Director's preface. -- Introduction / Anne Lake Prescott. -- Dissecting the female body : from women's secrets to the secrets of nature / Katharine Park. -- Making the invisible visible : portraits of desire and constructions of death in sixteenth and seventeenth century China / Judith T. Zeitlin. -- A soprano subjectivity : vocality, power, and the compositional voice of Francesca Caccini / Suzanne G. Cusick. -- Witch hunting as women hunting : persecution by gender / Anne Llewellyn Barstow. -- Navigating the waves (of devotion): toward a gendered analysis of early modern catholicism / Jodi Bilinkoff. -- Sor Juana's arch : public spectacle, private battles / Elects Arenal. -- Armchair travel / Karen Newman. -- Whose voice is it anyway? teaching early women writers / Barbara F. McManus. -- "If we can't know what 'really' happened, why should we study the past?"/ Frances E. Dolan. -- Directly from the sources : teaching early modern women's history without the Narrative / Martha Howell. -- (En)gendering performance : staging plays by early modern women / Alison Findlay, Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, and Gweno Williams

Extended title: Crossing boundaries : attending to early modern women / edited by Jane Donawerth and Adele Seeff. ; with the assistance of Sharon Achinstein ... [et al.]

Literature, Modern Literature Women

associated with: Donawerth, Jane, 1947-
associated with: Seeff, Adele F
associated with: University of Maryland at College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies