Early Modern Womens Work - Kinship, Community, and Social Justice

Early Modern Women's Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe.

List of contents

Introduction: Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice
Chapter One: Emotional Labor: The Work of Mourning
Chapter Two: Acts of Faith: Maternality and Management
Chapter Three: Writing for Your Life: Refuge and Precarity
Chapter Four: Collaborations: Engendering Literary Identities
Chapter Five: Kinship: "Amateurs" of Nature and Imitation
Conclusion: Early Modern Lexicons: Gendered Communities and Social Justice
Selected Readings
Index

About the author

Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests encompass the literature and history of German-speaking Europe, from early modernity to the present. Her recent monograph, German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492-1942 (2025), engages German colonial entanglements and the narratives they generated from the perspective of contemporary critical race theory.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Anne Simpson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032211329
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221132-9
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, The arts: general issues, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, The arts: general topics