Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700.

The Journal invites submissions to an interdisciplinary Forum on Early Modern Women and Memory, slated for publication in Volume 6 (2011). We encourage contributors to the forum to explore memory and early modern women from different socioeconomic levels and from regions across the globe. A full forum prompt is available here.

Recent Volumes

Volume 4

Volume 4, now in print, includes essays by:

  • Joanne H. Wright
  • Peter Matheson
  • Holly Hurlburt
  • Amber Youell

Volume 4 also includes a forum on early modern women and material culture, bibliographies of recent Italian publications in early modern women studies, an art exhibition review on Renaissance art and objects depicting marriage and love, and book reviews.

View the Contents for Volume 4 (2009)

Volume 3

Volume 3 includes essays by:

  • Linda Austern
  • Cristina Alfar
  • Anne Larsen
  • Katja-Altpeter Jones
  • Helen Hills

Volume 3 also includes a forum on the rise of the mercantile economy and early modern women, bibliographies of recent French and Spanish publications in early modern women studies, an art exhibition review on the image of women in Old Master works on display in the Spaigthwood Galleries, and book reviews.

View the Contents for Volume 3 (2008)

Volume 2

Volume 2 includes essays by:

  • Christopher Martin
  • Grace Fong
  • Anne Dunlop
  • Katherine R. Larson
  • Elizabeth S. Cohen
  • Suzanne Cusick

Volume 2 also includes a review, by Marjorie Och, of the “Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque” exhibition at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, as well as an extensive bibliography of publications in English in Early Modern Women’s Studies from 2004 through 2006.

View the Contents for Volume 2 (2007)

Volume 1

This inaugural volume includes book reviews of key new studies in the field as well as essays by:

  • Margaret P. Hannay
  • Cristelle L. Baskins
  • Susan Laningham
  • John J. Conley
  • Elizabeth Mazzola
  • Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

View the Contents for Volume 1 (2006)

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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of Women's Studies, and the Department of English at the University of Maryland, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. For further support, EMWJ thanks the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. The EMWJ Board of Advisors unites elected representatives from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the Planning Committee for the Attending to Early Modern Women symposium series.