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How did gender figure in understandings of spatial realms, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? How did women situate themselves in the early modern world, and how did they move through it, in both real and imaginary locations? How do new disciplinary and geographic connections shape the ways we think about the early modern world, and the role of women and men in it? These are the questions that guide this volume, which includes articles by a select group of scholars from many disciplines: Art History, Comparative Literature, English, German, History, Landscape Architecture, Music, and Women's Studies. Each essay reaches across fields, and several are written by interdisciplinary groups of authors. The essays also focus on many different places, including Rome, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, and on texts and images that crossed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, or that portrayed real and imagined people who did. Many essays investigate topics key to the 'spatial turn' in various disciplines, such as borders and their permeability, actual and metaphorical spatial crossings, travel and displacement, and the built environment.
List of contents
Introduction
Part I Frameworks
1 History in the Present Tense: Feminist Theories, Spatialized Epistemologies, and Early Mordern Embodiment Valerie Traub
2 Early Modern Gender and the Global Turn Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
3 Gender and Representation in the Early Modern Hispanic World Charlene Villasenor Black
Part II Embodied Environments
4 Body Language: Keeping Secrets in Early Modern Narartives Gerhild Scholz Williams
5 Bodies by the Book: Remapping Reputation in the Account of Anne Greene and Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Tara Pederson
6 Envisioning a Global Environment for Blessed Teresa of Avila in 1614: The Beatification Decorations for S. Maria della Scala in Rome Pamela M. Jones
7 Re-Placing Gender in Elizabethan Gardens Sara L. French
8 Attending to Fishwives: Views from Seventeenth-Century London and Amsterdam Alena Buis, Christi Spain-Savage, and Myra E. Wright
Part III Communities and Networks
9 Baby Jesus in a Box: Commerce and Enclosure in an Early Modern Convent Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
10 Within and Without: Women's Networks and the Early Modern Roman Convent Kimberlyn Montford
11 Women's Kinship Networks: A Meditation on Creative Genealogies and Historical Labor Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane, Julie A. Eckerle, Michelle M. Dowd, and Megan Matchinske
12 Navigating Shakespearean Representations of Female Collaboration John Garrison, Kyle Pivetti, and Vanessa Rapatz
Part IV Exchanges
13 Guides to Marriage and "Needful Travel" in Early Modern England Ann Christensen
14 The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in Sixteenth-to Early Seventeenth- Century British Literature and Culture Bernadette Andrea
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About the author
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA.
Summary
How did gender figure in the routes and spaces of the early modern world, both real and imagined, from the inner spaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe? Essays in this volume address this question from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with topics key to the ’spatial turn’, such as borders and their permeability, actual and m
