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This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism, taking into account intersecting factors such as class, culture, confessional stance, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, dis/ability, geography, and historical circumstance. It presents thirteen original case studies on the diversity, complexity, and subtlety of the intersection of faith and feminism in the lives and works of twenty-two women writers over a 350-year period in six nations. Along the way, it interrogates the accuracy of the view that monotheistic religions only constrict and oppress women, stifling their agency, autonomy, and authority.
Contents
Acknowledgements, List of Figures, 1. Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women: An Introduction, 2. Teresa de Cartagena's Feminist Rhetoric and Theology, 3. Feminism and Italian Sacred Writings: A Growing Space for Female Authorship, 1500-1600, 4. Shaftesbury, Women Writers, and Deism, 5. Mère Angélique Arnauld and the Paradoxes of Women's, 6. Nothing but a Union with God: Queer Religiosity in Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 7. A Plant in God's House: Botanical Metaphors in Early Modern Women's Poetry, 8. The Christian Housewife and Midwife: Healthcare and Women's Authority in Early Modern Almanacs and Manuals, 9. The Rhetoric and Aesthetic of Indirection: Women, Religion, and Power in the Works of Margaret Cavendish, 10. Grief, Commemoration, and the Poetics of Disruption in the Works of Frances Norton, 11. Anne Dowriche and Elizabeth Cary as Writers of Early Modern History, 12. Both Enabling and Limiting: Religion as a Sponsor of Feminism in the Eighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Verses of Collier, 13. Freer than any Ladys in the universe: Theologies of Liberty and Legalism in the Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 14. I Find No Curse in the Gospel of Christ: Private Judgment and the Gendering of Church Discipline in the Early American Republic, Notes on Contributors, Bibliography, Index
