Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture

Emerging Subjects

M Lindsay Kaplan editor Dympna Callaghan editor Valerie Traub editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Oct '96

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The impact on women of the new developments of the Renaissance, and links with postmodernist femininity.

This collection of essays explores the ways in which the new developments of the Renaissance affected the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves. In so doing, the authors discover that the female subject of the Renaissance shares much conceptual territory with her postmodern counterpart.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.

ISBN: 9780521552493

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 30mm

Weight: 590g

317 pages