Early Modern Women - An Interdisciplinary Journal

CONTENTS Volume 3 (2008)
“Thy Righteousness is but a menstrual clout”: Sanitary Practices and Prejudice in Early Modern England Sara Read	1
Inscribing Gender on the Early Modern Body: Marital Violence in German Texts of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century *Katja Altpeter-Jones*	27
Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam *Cristina León Alfar*	61
A Women’s Republic of Letters: Anna Maria van Schurman, Marie de Gournay and Female Self-Representation in Relation to the Public Sphere *Anne R. Larsen*	105
Women's Musical Voices in Sixteenth-Century England *Linda Phyllis Austern*	127
Demure Transgression: Portraying Female "Saints" in Post-Tridentine Italy *Helen Hills*	153
FORUM The Rise of the Mercantile Economy and Early Modern Women
Forum Introduction	209
Femininity in the Marketplace: The Ideal Woman in Fourteenth-Century Florence *Juliann Vitullo*	211
Merchant Wives, Agency, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Studies *Ann Christensen*	217
Gaining Honor as Husband’s Deputy: Margherita Datini at Work, 1381-1410 *Ann Crabb*	225
Widows, Legal Rights, and the Mercantile Economy of Early Modern Milan *Jeannette M. Fregulia*	233
Identifying Women Proprietors in Wills from Fifteenth-Century London Kate Kelsey Staples	239
Women, Objects, and Exchanges in Early Modern Florence Ann Matchette	240
THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MODERN WOMEN GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE
Abstract, Rembrandt’s The Death of the Virgin, Cartesianism, and Modernity in the Dutch Republic *Elissa Auerbach*	253
BIBLIOGRAPHIES Recent Spanish and French Publications
Mujeres que saben latín: Publications in Spanish in Early Modern Women’s Studies, 2004-2007 *Ana Kothe*	257
Je nomme ceci votre proumenoir: Publications in French in Early Modern Women’s Studies, 2004-2007 *Stéphane Pillet*	271
ART EXHIBITION REVIEW
Images of Women in Old Master Prints and Drawings/ Images by Women in Old Master Prints and Drawings, Spaigthwood Galleries, Upton, MA *Jodi Cranston*	309
BOOK REVIEWS
Early Modern Women and the Genesis of Modern Science: A Review Essay Judith P. Zinsser, Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France Katharine Park, Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection *Elspeth Whitney*	319
John Newton and Jo Bath, Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 *Raisa Maria Toivo*	325
Sylvia Brown, Wonder, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe *Carrie F. Klaus*	328
Edith Snook, Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England *Katheryn Giglio*	331
Gina Bloom, Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England *Erin Minear*	333
Kate Chedgzoy, Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550-1700 *Anita Gilman Sherman*	335
Dympna Callaghan, The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies *Pamela Hammons*	338
Gabrielle Langdon, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I *Joyce De Vries*	341
The Marian Catholic Revival: A Review Essay Eamon Duffy and David Loades, The Church of Mary Tudor William Wizeman, S.J., The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor’s Church *Robert Scully, S.J.*	344
Classical Medicine and the Origins of Gynecology: A Review Essay Helen King, Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium Eve Keller, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric Of Reproduction in Early Modern England *Rachana Sachdev*	350

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