Table of Contents

Notes of Contributors
Lorna Hutson: Introduction
I. Humanism after Feminism
1: Joan Kelly: Did Women Have a Renaissance?
2: Lisa Jardine: Women Humanists: Education for What?
3: Lorna Hutson: The Housewife and the Humanists
4: Stephanie Jed: The Tenth Muse: Gender, Rationality, and the Marketing of Knowledge
II. Historicizing Femininity
5: Ian Maclean: Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology
6: Natalie Zemon Davis: Women on Top
7: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber: The 'Cruel Mother': Maternity, Widowhood, and Dowry in Florence in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
8: Lyndal Roper: Witchcraft and Fantasy in Early Modern Germany
III. Gender and Genre
9: Nancy J. Vickers: Diana Described: Scattered Woman and Scattered Rhyme
10: Patricia Parker: Literary Fat Ladies and the Generation of the Text
11: Victoria Kahn: Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract
12: Ann Rosalind Jones: Surprising Fame: Renaissance Gender Ideologies and Women's Lyric
IV. Women's Agency
13: Sharon Achinstein: Women on Top in the Pamphlet Literature of the English Revolution
14: Fredrika Jacobs: La Donnesca Mano ('The Womanly Hand')
15: Merry Wiesner: Guilds, Male Bonding and Women's Work in Early Modern Germany
16: Laura Gowing: Language, Power, and the Law: Women's Slander Litigation in Early Modern London
17: Tim Carter: Finding a Voice: Vittoria Archilei and the Florenine 'New Music'
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Lorna Hutson is Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), and The Userer's Daughter (1994).