Articles
Words about Women’s Work: The Case of Housewifery in Early Modern England
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by Ann C. Christensen | University of Houston
Bawds and Housewives: Margaret Cavendish and the Work of “Bad Writing”
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by Lara Dodds | Mississippi State University
Philippe Mornay, Mary Sidney, and the Politics of Translation
by Elizabeth Pentland | York University
Mary Somerset and Colonial Botany: Reading Between the Ecofeminist Lines
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by Jennifer Munroe | University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Healing on the Margins: Ana de San Bartolomé, Convent Nurse
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by Barbara Mujica | Georgetown University
Swaddling England: How Jane Sharp’s Midwives Book Shaped the Body of Early Modern Reproductive Tradition
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by Catherine Morphis | University of Texas, Arlington
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by Michelle M. Dowd | University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Book & Performance Reviews
Donawerth, Jane. Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600-1900. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 205 pp. $57.00.
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Sarah Farrell | University of Texas, Arlington
Finn, Kavita M. The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440-1627. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 280pp. $76.00.
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Rebecca Dark | Dallas Baptist University
Frye, Susan. Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 344 pp. $65.00.
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Rebecca Olson | Oregon State University
Herbert, Amanda E. Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2014. 272 pp. $55.00.
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Niamh J. O’Leary | Xavier University
Johnson, Sarah E. “Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England.” Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. 185 pp. $104.95.
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Rachel Adcock | Loughborough University
Larson, Katherine R. Early Modern Women in Conversation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 218 pp. $90.00.
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Lara Dodds | Mississippi State University
Meakin, H.L. The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury. Surrey UK; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. 328 pp. $129.95.
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Maureen E. Mulvihill | Princeton Research Forum, N.J.
Pender, Patricia. Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 232 pp. $85.00.
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Elizabeth McCutcheon | University of Hawaii
Edith Snook. Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 208 pp. $77.73.
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Emily O’Brien | Trinity College Dublin
Performance Review | Moll Cutpurse. Victorian Drag King: Jo Davies’s “The Roaring Girl”
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Rachel Ellen Clark | Wartburg College
Performance Review | Uncomplicated Desire: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s “The Two Noble Kinsmen”
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Erin K. Kelly | Ohio State University
Performance Review | True Crime Voyeurs: “Arden of Faversham” at the RSC
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Niamh J. O’Leary | Xavier University