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Examines a variety of texts from late Enlightenment Germany to provide a nuanced rethinking of women's roles as wives, mothers, and housekeepers, creators of the cultural spaces of the home.

Thematology --- German literature --- Home in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism.

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This book explores the figure of the modern woman in the essays and fiction of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s. It examines in depth the author's theories of gender in light of the basic principles of anarchist political thought and philosophy. In addition, Montseny's novels are shown to engage in an elaborate and critical dialogue with scientific and cultural discourses on women that proliferated during the first four decades of the 20th century. Montseny's ideal modern woman is not a static and definite figure; rather, she shifts across different and at times contradictory articulations that, nonetheless, all fall within her anarchist beliefs. Montseny, a popular politician and writer during her time, developed and disseminated some of the most original concepts dealing with women's emancipation and gender theory, and the present volume is the first to situate her thought as a key component within the evolution of Spanish feminism..

Nuria Cruz-C©Łmara is Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee.

Women in literature --- Montseny, Federica --- Criticism and interpretation --- Montseny, Federica - Criticism and interpretation --- Women in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Mañé, Federica Montseny, --- Montseny Mañé, Federica, --- Montseny, Frederica, --- 1920s. --- 1930s. --- Federica Montseny. --- Spanish anarchist leader. --- Spanish feminism. --- gender theory. --- modern woman. --- women's emancipation.

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Authorship --- Popular culture --- Sex role in literature. --- West African literature (English) --- Women and literature --- Women in literature. --- Sex differences. --- Male authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Sociology of culture --- Fiction --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Nwapa, Flora --- Aidoo, Ama Ata --- West Africa --- Bâ, Mariama --- Dove-Danquah, Mabel --- Alkali, Zaynab --- Adimora-Ezeigbo, Akachi --- Ali, Hauwa --- Nwoye, May Ifeoma --- Gender --- Literature --- Theory --- Book

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In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable female presence, authoritative, ready to measure any place or person. The atlas, finished during James' reign, later omitted her picture. But this disappearance did not mean Elizabeth vanished entirely; her image and her connection to geography appear in multiple plays and maps. Elizabeth becomes, like the ruler she holds, an instrument applied and adapted. Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage explores the ways in which mapmakers, playwrights, and audiences in early modern England could, following their queen's example, use the ideas of geography, or 'world-writing', to reshape the symbolic import of the female body and territory to create new identities. The book demonstrates how early modern mapmakers and dramatists - men and women - conceived of and constructed identities within a discourse of fluid ideas about space and gender.

English drama --- History and criticism. --- Cartography in literature --- Women in literature --- Theater --- History --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Geography, Renaissance drama, women, representation. --- Geography --- anno 1500-1799 --- England

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"During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and symbolic qualities.This study focuses on the more complex metaphysical functions and meanings attached to it between 1100 and 1400 - and, in particular, those associated with the gardens of Eden and the Song of Songs. Drawing on contemporary theories of gender, gardens, landscape and space, it traces specifically the resurfacing and reworking of the idea and image of the enclosed garden within the writings of medieval holy women and other female-coded texts. In so doing, it presents the enclosed garden as generator of a powerfully gendered hermeneutic imprint within the medieval religious imaginary - indeed, as an alternative "language" used to articulate those highly complex female-coded approaches to God that came to dominate late-medieval religiosity.The book also responds to the "eco-turn" in our own troubled times that attempts to return the non-human to the centre of public and private discourse. The texts under scrutiny therefore invite responses as both literary and "garden" spaces where form often reflects content, and where their authors are also diligent "gardeners": the apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve, for example; the horticulturally-inflected Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenburg and the "green" philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias; the visionary writings of Gertrude the Great and Mechthild of Hackeborn collaborating within their Helfta nunnery; the Middle English poem, Pearl; and multiple reworkings of the deeply problematic and increasingly sexualized garden enclosing the biblical figure of Susanna."

Christian spirituality --- Christian church history --- Old English literature --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- Christianity --- literature [writings] --- walled gardens --- Medieval [European] --- literature [documents] --- Enclosed garden (Allegory) --- Christian art and symbolism --- Gardens --- Literature, Medieval --- Women in literature. --- Christianity in literature. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Women authors.