Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World /
Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories wom...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks; Part I Temporality and materiality; 1 Time, gender, and the mystery of English wine; Frances E. Dolan; 2 Women in the sea of time; Domestic dated objects in seventeenth-century England; Sophie Cope; 3 Time, gender, and nonhuman worlds; Emily Kuffner, Elizabeth Crachiolo, and Dyani Johns Taff; Part II Frameworks and taxonomy of time; 4 Telling time through medicine; A gendered perspective; Alisha Rankin; 5 Times told; Women narrating the everyday in early modern Rome; Elizabeth S. Cohen; 6 Genealogical memory
- Constructing female rule in seventeenth-century AcehSu Fang Ng; 7 Feminist queer temporalities in Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson; Penelope Anderson and Whitney Sperrazza; Part III Embodied time; 8 Embodied temporality; Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's sacra storia, Donatello's Judith, and the performance of gendered authority in Palazzo Medici, Florence; Allie Terry-Fritsch; 9 Maybe baby; Pregnant possibilities in medieval and early modern literature; Holly Barbaccia, Bethany Packard, and Jane Wanninger; 10 Evolving families
- Realities and images of stepfamilies, remarriage, and half-siblings in early modern SpainGrace E. Coolidge and Lyndan Warner; Epilogue; 11 Navigating the future of early modern women's writing; Pedagogy, feminism, and literary theory; Michelle M. Dowd; Index; List of figures; Figure 2.1 Tin-glazed earthenware mug, dated 1642, London. Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Figure 2.2 Brass and iron spit jack, dated 1670, England. Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Figure 2.3 Elm chest, dated 1640, England. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Figure 2.4 Silk, leather, and beadwork bag, dated 1625, England. Collection of John H. Bryan, used by permissionFigure 4.1 'Astrological' or 'zodiac' man in a portable folding almanac, 1451-81. Wellcome Library London; Figure 4.2 Detail of Peter Slovacius's 1581 almanac with zodiac man and symbols indicating auspicious dates for various procedures. Wellcome Library London; Figure 8.1 Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), Judith, c. 1464, bronze, located between mid-1460s and 1495 in the garden of Palazzo Medici, today in the Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo: author