Patricia Anne Simpson

Early Modern Women's Work (eBook, PDF)

Kinship, Community, and Social Justice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Early Modern Women's 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 foregrounds highlight a range of early modern concerns, primarily but not exclusively in German-speaking Europe. These include debates about women's education and erudition; migration and displacement in search of religious or professional freedom; a persistent but varied discourse about female authorship and creative agency; and the assertion of subjectivity against the violent, fractious history of the Thirty Years' War and beyond.

This book will be an ideal resource for students, scholars, and all those interested in German and European studies, women and gender studies, and the history of early modern work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040342855
• Artikelnr.: 73648211

Autorenporträt

Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests encompass the literature and history of German-speaking Europe, from early modernity to the present. Her recent monograph, German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492-1942 (2025), engages German colonial entanglements and the narratives they generated from the perspective of contemporary critical race theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Early Modern Women's 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