Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World (Hardcover)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller

1. Ain’t I a Ladie?: Race, Sexuality, and Early Modern Women Writers

Melissa E. Sanchez

2. Early Modern Bodies that Matter

Mario DiGangi

3. Regendering the Sublime and the Beautiful: Shakespeare’s Cleopatra and Feminist Formalism

Katherine B. Attie

4. Women and Literary Production

Stephen Guy-Bray

5. Ambiguities of Female Authorship and the Accessible Archive

Marcy North

6. Patterns of Print: Women’s Textual Patronage in the "Early" Early Modern Period

Patricia Pender

7. Picturing the Agency of Widows: Female Patronage among the Gentry and the Middling Sort of Elizabethan England

Tarnya Cooper

8. Women’s Labor at the Little Gidding Harmonies

Whitney Trettien

9. "A Witch! Who is not?": Demonic Contagion, Gender, and Class in The Witch of Edmonton

Mary Floyd-Wilson

10. "A Woman’s Logicke": Puritan Women Writers and the Rejection of Education

Christina Luckyj

11. Prosopopoeia, Gender, and Religion: The Poetry of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

Rosalind Smith

12. Dying Offstage: Gender and Martyrdom in Henry VI

Elizabeth Williamson

13. Flesh-Eaters: Gender, Bodies, and Labor in Early Modern Art and Literature

Karen Raber

14. "Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron": Ingredients, Instructions, and the Early Modern Recipe Book

Gitanjali Shahani and Emily Farris

15. "From a Drudge, to … a Cook": Hidden and Ostentatious Labor in the Early Modern Household

Mary Trull and Rebecca Laroche

16. "[T]he Monkey duchess all undressed": Simians, Satire, and Women

Holly Dugan

17. Gender, Knowledge, and the Medical Marketplace: The Case of Margaret Cavendish

Laura L. Knoppers

18. Counter-Narratives of Survival: Amerindian and African Women in Early Caribbean Literatures

Julie Chun Kim

19. Constructing White Privilege: Transatlantic Slavery, Reproduction, and the Segregation of the Marriage Plat in the late Seventeenth Century

Valerie Forman