Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging SubjectsValerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan Cambridge University Press, 10. okt 1996 - 301 pages 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. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Making it new humanism colonialism and the gendered body in early modern culture | 16 |
Gendering mortality in early modern anatomies | 44 |
Woundman Coriolanus gender and the theatrical construction of interiority | 93 |
The world I have made Margaret Cavendish feminism and the BlazingWorld | 119 |
Reading writing and other crimes | 142 |
Culinary spaces colonial spaces the gendering of sugar in the seventeenth century | 168 |
Caliban versus Miranda race and gender conflicts in postcolonial rewritings of The Tempest | 191 |
Rape repetition and the politics of closure in A Midsummer Nights Dream | 210 |
Subjection and subjectivity Jewish law and female autonomy in Reformation English marriage | 229 |
Where there can be no cause of affection redefining virgins their desires and their pleasures in John Lylys Gallathea | 253 |
The terms of gender gay and feminist Edward II | 275 |
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