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Author:   Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781041176664

ISBN 10:   104117666
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Part I: Choosing and Creating, 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency: Attending to Early Modern Women in the Material History of Intoxication, 2. Setting up House: Artisan Women's Trousseaux in Seventeenth-century Bologna, 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance, Part II: Confronting Power, 4. Confronting Women's Actions in History: Female Crown Fief Holders in Denmark, 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times? Women and the Politics of Slander, Sedition, and Informing during the English Revolution, 6. Why Political Theory is Women's Work: Freedom and Justice in Moderata Fonte's The Worth of Women (1600), 7. 'Wrestling the World from Fools': Teaching Historical Empathy and Critical Engagement, Part III: Challenging Representations, 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter: Margaret Cavendish's Challenge to the Early Modern Order of Things, 9. The Agency of Portrayal: The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period, 10. Rethinking the 'Medieval Housebook': A Gendered Intervention and its Consequences, Part IV: Forming Communities, 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont and Proto-salon Society, 12. Religious Spaces and Alliances in the Far East: Women's Travel and Writing in Manila and Macao, 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts: Reconsidering the Economic Role of their Networks and Relationships, Index

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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.

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