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

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

Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2000.

332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

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.

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