| Series |
Essays and Studies ; 31
Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 31. ^A1189443
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| Contents |
Introduction / Manuela Scarci -- Women and their fictions -- In Joan of Arc's shadow: The Maid of Orleans as identificatory model in some seventeenth-century Polemical texts / Jean-Philippe Beaulieu -- Women's voices in the works of Suzanne de Nervèze / Diane Desrosiers -- Speaking of women and giving voice to women: the example of Madeleine and Georges de Scudéry's Femmes illustres ou les harangues hèroïques / Renée-Claude Breitenstein -- Women and their writings -- Models for women in the letters of Huguenot noblewomen 1560-1620 / Jane Couchman -- Early modern Englishwomen's Miserere: ambitious and penitent expression / Patricia Demers -- Female impressions: some women writers in seventeenth-century English print / Anne Lake Prescott -- Women and their bodies -- Honour and shame: the construction of married women's bodies in fifteenth-century Spanish law / Dana Wessell Lightfoot -- From a manly knowledge to a man's helpmeet: changing conceptions of midwives' roles in seventeenth-century France / Bridgette Ann Sheridan -- The many faces of female discipline: gender control, subversion, and the nun-confessor relationship in golden age Barcelona / Cristian Berco -- Women and their agency -- The role of women in their kin's economic and political life: the Sienese case (end XIV- mid XV century) / Elena Brizio -- The role of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony in the planning of the royal palace of Caserta / Francesco Divenuto. |
| General note | "Essays stem from the conference 'Creating Women: Notions of Femininity from 1350 to 1700,' held November 11-12, 2005."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| LCCN | 2013455037 |
| ISBN | 9780772721464 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0772721467 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780772721471 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 0772721475 (pdf) |
