Feminisms and early modern texts : essays for Phyllis Rackin

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Introduction : a feminist at work / Jean E. Howard -- Household "writing" : or the joys of carving / Wendy Wall -- Preparing food, producing gender on early modern stages / Peter Parolin -- Sugar, gender, and the circum-Atlantic performance of class / Kim F. Hall -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Othello and Desdemona : race and emerging heterosexuality / Rebecca Ann Bach -- Home alone : the place of women's homoerotic desire in Shakespeare's As you like it / Will Fisher -- The woman writer as public paradox : Elizabeth Carter and the bluestocking circle / Lisa A. Freeman -- Wroth's cabinets / Julie Crawford -- Gender and the pleasures of revenge / Gwynne Kennedy -- Multiplying Cordelia : teaching feminist editorial practice / Sarah Werner -- Un-marking, re-marking and difference / Barbara Hodgdon