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Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity

Edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Contributions by Andrea Pearson, Contributions by Sheila ffolliott, Contributions by Mihoko Suzuki, Contributions by Joyce deVries, Contributions by Catherine Powell, Contributions by Caroline Castiglione, Contributions by Grethe Jacobsen, Contributions by Teresa Kemp, Contributions by Beth Link

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Examining womenâ€™s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Womenâ€™s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider womenâ€™s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of womenâ€™s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from various disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.