205 pp / Softcover / October 2013 / ISBN 978-0-7727-2146-4 / $29.95 (Price includes applicable taxes, Shipping: $5.99 CAD within North America, $21.99 CAD to Europe, and $24.99 CAD to all other International addresses; prices may vary for bulk orders)
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Edited by Manuela Scarci
This interdisciplinary and diverse collection of articles stems from a conference that centred on the idea of creating women. The verbal adjective in the title was meant to signal a dual meaning: women create and women are created by others. What did they create? What was their sense of themselves? How were their identities created in the early modern era? The purpose of the articles gathered here is to explore the fashioning of feminine identity, the social and psychological construct of woman in the early modern age, both from their own perspective and that of others. As in the case of most collaborative projects of this nature, the volume is eclectic and spans, across several centuries, the boundaries of disciplines and theoretical approaches, but the essays are bound together by their common search to define paradigms of femininity in the early modern period.
“This is an excellent collection of essays. As the subtle double meaning of the adjective ‘creating’ in the title of this volume suggests, these essays explore the multiple ways in which women, whether in royal palaces, convents, patrician mansions, or bourgeois households, shaped and altered the values and discourses of their surroundings.”
— Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
“The eleven articles in this volume point to women self-fashioning their identity within the social, cultural, religious, and legal constraints of the country and the century in which they lived. I have nothing but praise for the quality of this work. It will fill a void in numerous studies on the status of women.”
— Régine Reynolds-Cornell, Agnes Scott College
“The treat of reading this volume lies in the thorough way each article unearths and analyzes the ideas, choices, works, and voices of certain Renaissance women. The articles illustrate, among other things, the changes these women set in motion through the experiences they negotiated for themselves within the shifting political, religious, and social arenas of their patriarchal societies. […] Altogether, the result is a lively and original volume, full of striking details and offering an immersive, sustained analysis of Renaissance female voices across times and cultures. The topics are, in many cases, under-represented in the genre of Renaissance women’s study.”
–Pina Palma, Southern Connecticut State University
Manuela Scarci teaches in the Department of Italian Studies and the Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are in the fields of Italian Renaissance, particularly the short story, Renaissance women writers and the representation of women in the literature of early modern Italy, and pedagogy.
Early Modern Women’s Journal, 10:1 (2015). pp. 185-188. Reviewed by Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast.
Letras Femeninas, 40:2, pp. 254-256. Reviewed by Valencia Tamper.
Parergon, 31:2 (2014), pp. 211-212. Reviewed by Susan Broomhall.
Reformation/Renaissace et Réforme 37, no. 1 (Winter/hiver 2014): 175-177. Reviewed by Pina Palma.
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205 pp / Softcover / October 2013 / ISBN 978-0-7727-2146-4 / $29.95 (Price includes applicable taxes, Shipping: $5.99 CAD within North America, $21.99 CAD to Europe, and $24.99 CAD to all other International addresses; prices may vary for bulk orders)
