Description: The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism.
Brief description: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, and the author or editor of more than 30 books that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.
Review Quotes: Winner of the SSEMWG Collaborative Project Award in the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG) 2021 Book Awards.
"...an excellent overview of early modern women's agency in multiple forms."- Amy Froide, Early Modern Women, Spring 2023