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Feminist Reading Early Modrn Cultre: Emerging Subjects

Feminist Reading Early Modrn Cultre: Emerging Subjects

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Valerie Traub
Cambridge University Press, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521558198, ISBN10: 0521558190

Paperback, 320 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm
Language: English

How did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this question by analysing a wide spectrum of cultural concerns - humanism, technology, science, law, anatomy, literacy, domesticity, colonialism, erotic practices, and the theatre - in order to delineate the history of subjectivity and its relationship with the postmodern fragmented subject. The scope of this analysis expands the terrain explored by feminist theory, while its feminist focus reveals that the subject is always gendered - although the terms in which gender is conceived and represented change across history. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture not only explores the representation of gendered subjects, but in its commitment to balancing the productive tensions of methodological diversity, also speaks to contemporary challenges facing feminism.

1. Introduction Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan
2. Making it new
humanism, colonialism, and the gendered body in early modern culture Denise Albanese
3. Gendering mortality in early modern anatomies Valerie Traub
4. Wound man
Coriolanus, gender and the theatrical construction of interiority Cynthia Marshall
5. 'The world I have made'
Margaret Cavendish, feminism, and the Blazing-World Rosemary Kegl
6. Reading, writing, and other crimes Frances E. Dolan
7. Culinary spaces, colonial spaces
the gendering of sugar in the seventeenth century Kim F. Hall
8. Caliban versus Miranda
race and gender conflicts in post-colonial re-writings of The Tempest Jyotsna G. Singh
9. Rape, repetition, and the politics of closure in A Midsummer Night's Dream Laura Levine
10. Subjection and subjectivity
Jewish law and female autonomy in Reformation English marriage M. Lindsay Kaplan
'Where there can be no cause of affection'
redefining virgins, their desires, and their pleasures in John Lyly's Gallathea Theodora A. Jankowski
The terms of gender
'gay' and feminist Edward II Dympna Callaghan.