Crossing boundaries : attending to early modern women / edited by Jane Donawerth and Adele Seeff. ; with the assistance of Sharon Achinstein [and others].

Other author Donawerth, Jane, 1947-
Other author Seeff, Adele F.
Other author University of Maryland at College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies.
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark, DE : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 2000.
Description332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
General notePapers 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00057725
ISBN0874137454 (alk. paper)