Description: How did the new developments of the Renaissance affect the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves? Addressing a wide range of issues across Renaissance culture--humanism, technology, science, anatomy, literacy, theater, domesticity, colonialism, and sex--this collection of essays attempts to answer that question. In doing so, the authors discover that the female subject of the Renaissance shares a surprising amount of conceptual territory with her postmodern counterpart.
Review Quotes: "This current collection proves that feminism continues to play a defining role both in interpretations of early modern culture and in the state of theory." Ann C. Christensen, Shakespeare Quarterly