Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 2000
Physical Details
332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBNs
9780874137453, 0874137454
OCLC
ocm44586009
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.
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