Women during the English Reformations
Subtitle: renegotiating gender and religious identity
By: edited by Julie A. Chappell and Kaley A. Kramer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781137474735
Subjects: English literature; Women authors; History and criticism; Women; Identity; Identification (Religion); Women and religion; History; Women in Christianity; Women and literature; Women in motion pictures; Reformation; England; Religion
Other titles: Renegotiating gender and religious identity
Description: "This collection of scholarly essays examines the effects of reforms in religion on the gender and religious identity of women during the English reformations from Henry VIII's earliest iterations in the 1530s to filmic representations of reforming women in the last two centuries. As a whole, the authors offer a cross-section of contributions, influences, and activities by women in matters of faith in early modern England, focusing on women's creative undoings and reimaginings during a long period of reform in religion and the ramifications of these activities well beyond their own time. The essays explore the inspirations for and expressions of women's actions whether those actions were ultimately intended to serve the conservative or evangelical cause and provide a sample of the consequences and contradictions inherent in women's reimagining of religious and gender boundaries as these manifested internally in the individual woman to effect a renegotiation of her own gender and religious identity" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Julie A. Chappell; title: "To the illustrious queen": Katherine of Aragon and early modern book dedications / Valerie Schutte; title: "Rather a strong and constant man" : Margaret Pole and the problem of women's independence / Janice Liedl; title: Religious intent and the art of courteous pleasantry: a few letters from Englishwomen to Heinrich Bullinger (1543-1562) / Rebecca A. Giselbrecht; title: Elizabeth Cary and intersections of Catholicism and gender in early modern England / Lisa McClain; title: Eleanor Davies and the new Jerusalem / Amanda L. Capern; title: The failure of godly womanhood: religious and gender identity in the life of Lady Elizabeth Delaval / Sharon L. Arnoult; title: Haunting history: women, Catholicism, and the writing of national history in Sophia Lee's The recess / Kaley A. Kramer; title: Stripped of their altars: film, faith, and Tudor royal women from the silent era to the twenty-first century, 1895-2014 / William B. Robison.