Early Modern Womens Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice [Hardcover]

Introduction: Early Modern Womens Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice

Chapter One: Emotional Labor: The Work of Mourning

Chapter Two: Acts of Faith: Maternality and Management

Chapter Three: Writing for Your Life: Refuge and Precarity

Chapter Four: Collaborations: Engendering Literary Identities

Chapter Five: Kinship: Amateurs of Nature and Imitation

Conclusion: Early Modern Lexicons: Gendered Communities and Social Justice

Selected Readings

Index

Early Modern Womens Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe.

Early Modern Womens Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe. Through individual and collective authorship, the women analyzed in this study assert a claim to kinship and community, often beyond the hegemonic, heteronormative relationships to family, religion, and monarch.

The contributions of early modern women to the construction of productive work spaces and the establishment of intellectual and actual communities are often overlooked or underestimated in scholarship on this period. This book serves as a cultural corrective to suppositions of gender-coded work, because alongside the dominant history of the private sphere as a feminine domain, a counter-narrative emerges with collective authorship. Despite the disparities in their biographies, the women whose work Simpson flN