{"title":"(Early) Modern Women and Race","authors":"J. Macdonald","doi":"10.1086/721070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721070","url":null,"abstract":"More than twenty years before John Hawkins emerged as one of the heroes of the victory over the Spanish Armada, he sailed from England and helped abduct more than 1,200 Africans from the coast of what is now Sierra Leone for sale and trade in the NewWorld. His rise to the status of savior of the nation was prefaced by a different kind of achievement: the establishment of England’s place in what would become a global triangle trade in sugar, tobacco, and human beings. International and global preeminence was thus shadowed and underwritten by the slave trade; nation rested on race. The history of the slave trade shadows and envelops the development of early modern literature. When we study the Atlantic traffic among texts, modes, and authors, we must often read by slavery’s baleful light, and we know now that this flickering light may not always allow us to see clearly the black and brown women who are the continuing occasion of my studies.When Pieter de Marees wrote that the women along the Guinea coast were prone to “lust and uncleannesse” from their youth and that they aimed this natural lecherousness at the Dutch traders who began to arrive in the region in the seventeenth century, how did he know this? What did he know—or think he knew—about the circumstances under which sexual relations between Dutchmen and African women took place? It is","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"68 1","pages":"83 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91259546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jane Austen’s Geographies. Edited by Robert Clark. New York: Routledge, 2018. 276 pp. $136.00. ISBN 9780815376873.","authors":"Toby R. Benis","doi":"10.1086/720135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87293177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Premodern Rulers, Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture. Edited by Janice North, Elena Woodacre, and Karl C. Alvestad. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 360 pp. $85.00. ISBN 978-3-319-68770-4.","authors":"A. Andrzejewski","doi":"10.1086/717606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80141886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender. Aileen A. Feng. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. xiv + 266 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-4875-0077-1.","authors":"D. Sokolov","doi":"10.1086/717581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80395586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soror Maria do Céu’s Aves Illustradas: A Conduct Manual Legitimizing Female Authority for Early Modern Nuns through Storytelling","authors":"Anna-Lisa Halling","doi":"10.1086/717555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717555","url":null,"abstract":"industriousness, charity, discretion, obedience, cleanliness, and meticulousness.","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"109 1","pages":"289 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79213897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe. Mary D. Garrard. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. 320 pp. 65 color + 4 b/w illustrations. $22.50. ISBN 978-1-78914-202-0.","authors":"Marjorie Och","doi":"10.1086/717685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717685","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73066102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book. Kay Etheridge, with translations by Michael Ritterson. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 386 pp. $91.00. ISBN 978-9-0042-8479-1.","authors":"Kim W. Todd","doi":"10.1086/717608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76662762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens. J. Vanessa Lyon. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 256 pp. €109.00. ISBN 9789462985513.","authors":"Saskia Beranek","doi":"10.1086/717681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89562118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Female Authorship, Patronage, and Translation in Late Medieval France: From Christine de Pizan to Louise Labé. Anneliese Pollock Renck. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. xix + 251 pp. €85.00. ISBN 978-2-503-56921-5.","authors":"Tracy Adams","doi":"10.1086/717583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"117 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86324239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Renaissance Marriage: The Personal and Political Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490–1519. Carolyn James. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 204 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-0-1996-8121-1.","authors":"Sarah D. P. Cockram","doi":"10.1086/717604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90700044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}