Figuring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-1700
By: by Tamara Harvey.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780754664529
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism; America -- Literatures -- History and criticism; America -- Literatures -- Women authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 'But modesty hath charg'd me to conceal' : functionalist reframing of the symbolic body as seventeenth-century feminist theory; title: 'Now sisters . . . impart your usefulnesse, and force' : Anne Bradstreet's feminist functionalism; title: 'Cuerpo luminoso' : body and soul in sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero sueño; title: 'I doe not thinke the body that dyes shall rise agayne' : Anne Hutchinson's mortalism as feminist functionalism; title: Femmes fortes : mysticism and the female apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation.