Routledge Companion to Women Sex and Gender in the Early British Colonial World 1st Edition Kimberly Anne Coles

Part I Debates and directions

1 Ain’t I a Ladie?: race, sexuality, and early modern women writers

2 Early modern bodies that matter

3 Regendering the sublime and the beautiful: Shakespeare’s Cleopatra and feminist formalism

Part II Authorship and patronage

4 Women and literary production

5 Ambiguities of female authorship and the accessible archive

6 Patterns of print: women’s textual patronage in the “early” early modern period

7 Picturing the agency of widows: female patronage among the gentry and the middling sort of Elizabethan England

8 Women’s labor and the Little Gidding harmonies

Part III The matter of reform

9 “A witch! Who is not?”: demonic contagion, gender, and class in The Witch of Edmonton

10 “A Womans Logicke”: Puritan women writers and the rejection of education

11 Prosopopoeia, gender, and religion: the poetry of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

12 Dying offstage: gender and martyrdom in 1 Henry VI

Part IV Bodies of knowledge

13 Flesh-eaters: gender, bodies, and labor in early modern art and literature

14 “Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron”: ingredients, instructions, and the early modern recipe book

15 “From a drudge, to … a cook”: hidden and ostentatious labor in the early modern household

16 “[T]he monkey duchess all undressed”: simians, satire, and women in seventeenth-century England

17 Gender, knowledge, and the medical marketplace: the case of Margaret Cavendish

Part V The place of production

18 Counter-narratives of survival: Amerindian and African women in early Caribbean literatures

19 Constructing white privilege: transatlantic slavery, reproduction, and the segregation of the marriage plot in the late seventeenth century