Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both inc...

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Main Author Wiesner-Hanks, Merry
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Amsterdam University Press 2021
Edition1
SeriesGendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Subjects
Europe
General history of Europe
History
Renaissance
Social Science
Women
Women's Studies
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Summary:Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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ISBN:9048550939
9789048550937
DOI:10.1515/9789048550937