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Early Modern Women’s Diaries
This entry first considers the question of what may be defined as a diary in the early modern period, along with issues of the preservation,...
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Women’s Health and Writing About It
The introduction to this volume situates the historical material within the context of recent news, legislation, and debates about women’s bodies....
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Manuscript and Women’s Booklists
Recent research has greatly increased both the kinds and amount of evidence available to document the ownership of books by early modern women. Much...
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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts
The methodologies students and scholars can use when working with early modern women’s manuscripts are multiple. Insights can be gained from applying...
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Women Across Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Europe—Rewriting Women’s History from a Transnational Perspective
This introductory essay examines the editorial agendas of nineteenth-century women who sought to participate in the literary and cultural life of...
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Manuscript and Women’s Life Writing
Most women’s life writing of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was written in manuscript and often circulated (or “published”) in manuscript;...
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Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women’s Writing
This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays...
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Editing Early Modern Women’s Printed Work
While male writers from the English Renaissance such as Shakespeare have benefited from centuries of active editing, a vast majority of women writers...
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Introduction: Navigating Women’s Friendships into the Twenty-First Century
This book arose out of our conviction that women’s friendships deserve more attention in the study of US literature and culture. Historically,...
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Women’s Dream-Vision Poetry
Although the dream-vision poem is not conventionally thought of as a category of early modern literature, it has come to assume an increasingly...
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Transnational Emancipationism: Fanny Salazar Zampini’s Commitment to Women’s Liberation
Fanny Salazar Zampini was one of the first Italian intellectuals engaged in the battle for the emancipation of women at the end of the nineteenth...
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Identity Shakespeare: L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Company and Harlem Shakespeare Festival
This chapter provides company histories of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company (LAWSC), founded by Lisa Wolpe in 1993, and of Take Wing and...
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English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700 New Kingdoms of Womanhood
English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhooduncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval...
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A Background to Women’s Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen a sustained recovery of women’s writing across the Globe. Yet despite this process of reclamation,...
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Women’s Bibles, White and Black: Twentieth Century and Beyond
Besides slavery, the most intense biblical clashes in America occurred around the status of women. Women’s poetry provides a central scene of...
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Victorian Women’s Hysteria and Neo-Victorian Women’s Madness
From a modern perspective, most Victorians seemed to have been obsessed about controlling women, subjugating the animal within men, and adjudicating...
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Manuscript and Print: Which Is More Important for Understanding Women’s Writing in the Early Modern Period?
The question of which is more important for understanding early modern women’s writing, manuscript or print, is one which only would have been asked...
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Convents of Pleasure: English Women’s Literary Utopias
This final chapter uncovers the overlooked influence of Catholic women’s spiritual utopianism on Protestant English women’s literary utopias by...
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Introduction: Cities of Women–A New History of Utopia
This introduction situates the book’s argument for a convent-based utopianism within traditionally separate scholarly conversations on the history of...
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Women’s Influence and Control
This chapter examines the depiction of women in Dune and the amount of agency or control they have. It focuses on three key avenues of...