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Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Women --- History --- Women's agency, early modern, women's writing, material culture, gender.

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Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women's lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds 'such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent' this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women.

Women --- History --- Sex role --- Social role --- Social conditions --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Early modern, women, Europe, gender.

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The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender awarded this work the Prize for the Best Translated Edition of a Work on Women and Gender, 2018.Valerie Hegstrom and Catherine Larson have created an annotated new edition and first-ever translation of Ângela de Azevedo's vibrant comedy, El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead, to promote the recuperation of early modern plays authored by women. The book contains a comprehensive introduction that describes Spanish theater in its Golden Age, what is known of the author's life and times, contemporary stagings, and an extensive analysis of the text.Although the playwright penned her work in Spanish, the Portuguese Azevedo set the action in Lisbon, creating in the process an abundance of multicultural allusions that enrich the text's baroque quality. The story unfolds as a cross between a jilted-lover scenario and a whodunit murder mystery. A woman laments her departed lover, a sister cross-dresses to avenge her murdered brother, a man duels with his cousin over lost honor, and before long, the dead man turns up as a ghost, or a bar maid, or a female peddler. Questions about identity abound in the witty El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead. The transnational nature of this clever comedy complicates meanings, often producing bilingual wordplay that underscores the self-conscious, gender-bending, ludic character of the play and of theater in general. Azevedo highlights her ability to cross linguistic and geographic borders in the early modern period, as she simultaneously works within and offers a challenge to the dominant tradition of the Spanish Comedia.

Spanish drama (Comedy) --- History and criticism. --- performance --- gender and theatre --- El muerto disimulado --- murder mystery --- cross-dressing --- golden age --- early modern women playwrights --- Presumed Dead --- comedy --- Ângela de Azevedo --- spanish theatre --- Golden Age comedy --- Iberian drama --- portuguese --- game-playing

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Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking. Understanding this system as an extensive network of production and reception in which women took on many roles allows for new readings of Henrician verse that emphasize the interpretive range available to contemporary reading and writing communities. This restoration demasculinizes our approach to Henrician verse not only through a more equitable consideration of gender's functions in that social world, but also in de-emphasizing individualized self-fashioning or authorial intent in favor of an engagement with communal production and shared sociopolitical engagement. The creation in this system is not of a code, but of systems for coding and recognizing position-taking. These communal systems offer a site for the intersection of reader and writer, of transcriber and composer, and of King and courtier in a space that questions, creates, and troubles power in the Henrician court.

early modern women's writing, Henry VIII, Margaret Douglas, early modern poetry. --- Gender studies, gender groups. --- Cultural studies. --- Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800. --- Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. --- Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800. --- English poetry --- Translating and interpreting --- History and criticism. --- History --- Sex role in literature.

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This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.

Women --- Women missionaries --- Women in missionary work --- Missions --- Missionaries, Women --- Women as missionaries --- Missionaries --- Women in Christianity --- History. --- K9090.60 --- K9327 --- History --- Korea: Religion -- Christianity -- history -- modern period (1860s- ) --- Korea: Communities, social classes and groups -- gender roles, women, feminism, men --- american missionaries. --- christianity. --- confucian practices. --- early 20th century. --- east meets west. --- gender and modernity. --- gender experiences. --- gender issues. --- global politics. --- historical. --- japanese empire. --- korea. --- korean colonization. --- korean nationalism. --- korean politics. --- korean studies. --- men and women. --- mission encounters. --- modern history. --- modern korea. --- modern women. --- nonfiction. --- protestant missionaries. --- religion and gender. --- selfhood. --- seoul. --- textbooks. --- womanhood.