Routledge companion to women, sex, and gender in the early British colonial world /
All essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude, in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction or preparation for death. They attend to how the body's transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how a...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : sex education / Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller
- Part I. Debates and directions. Ain't I a Ladie? : race, sexuality, and early modern women writers / Melissa E. Sanchez
- Early modern bodies that matter / Mario DiGangi
- Regendering the sublime and the beautiful : Shakespeare's Cleopatra and feminist formalism / Katherine B. Attie ́-- Part II. Authorship and patronage. Women and literary production / Stephen Guy-Bray
- Ambiguities of female authorship and the accessible archive / Marcy L. North
- Patterns of print : women's textual patronage in the "early" early modern period / Patricia Pender
- Picturing the agency of widows : female patronage among the gentry and the middling sort of Elizabethan England / Tarnya Cooper
- Women's labor and the Little Gidding harmonies / Whitney Trettien
- Part III. The matter of reform. "A witch! Who is not?" : demonic contagion, gender, and class in The witch of Edmonton / Mary Floyd-Wildon
- "A Womans Logicke" : Puritan women writers and the rejection of education / Christina Luckyj
- Prosopopoeia, gender, and religion : the poetry of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots / Rosalind Smith
- Dying offstage : gender and martyrdom in 1 Henry VI / Elizabeth Williamson
- Part IV. Bodies of knowledge. Flesh-eaters : gender, bodies, and labor in early modern art and literature / Karen Raber
- "Add thereto a tiger's chaudron" : ingredients, instructions, and the early modern recipe book / Gitanjali Shahani and Emily S. Farris
- "From a drudge, to...a cook" : hidden and ostentatious labor in the early modern household / Mary Trull and Rebecca Laroche
- "[T]he monkey duchess all undressed" : simians, satire, and women in seventeenth-century England / Holly Dugan
- Gender, knowledge, and the medical marketplace : the case of Margaret Cavendish / Laura L. Knoppers
- Part V. The place of production. Counter-narratives of survival : Amerindian and African women in early Caribbean literatures / Julie Chun Kim
- Constructing white privilege : transatlantic slavery, reproduction, and the segregation of the marriage plot in the late seventeenth century / Valerie Forman.