Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World

Contents: Introduction, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks. Part I Frameworks: History in the present tense: feminist theories, spatialized epistemologies, and early modern embodiment, Valerie Traub; Early modern gender and the global turn, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks; Gender and representation in the Hispanic world, 16th-18th centuries, Charlene VillaseA+-or Black. Part II Embodied Environments: Body language: keeping secrets in medieval and early modern narratives, Gerhild Scholz Williams; Bodies by the book: remapping reputation in the account of Anne Greene and Shakespearea (TM)s Much Ado About Nothing, Tara E. Pedersen; Envisioning a global environment for blessed Teresa of Avila in 1614: the beatification decorations for S. Maria della Scala in Rome, Pamela M. Jones; Re-placing gender in Elizabethan gardens, Sara L. French; Attending to fishwives: views from 17th-century London and Amsterdam, Alena Buis, Christi Spain-Savage, and Myra Wright. Part III Communities and Networks: Baby Jesus in a box: convents, commerce, and material culture, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt; Within and without: womena (TM)s networks and the early modern convent, Kimberlyn Montford; Womena (TM)s kinship networks: a meditation on creative genealogies and historical labor, Julie A. Eckerle, Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Michelle M. Dowd, and Megan Matchinske; Navigating Shakespearean representations of female collaboration, John Garrison, Kyle Pivetti, and Vanessa Rapatz. Part IV Exchanges: Guides to marriage and a "needful travela (TM) in early modern England, Ann Christensen; The a "presences of womena (TM) from the Islamic world in 16th- to early 17th-century British literature and culture, Bernadette Andrea; Rival to the Virgin Queen: the enduring narrative of Amy Robsart, Sheila T. Cavanagh. Bibliography; Index.