Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens : women's alliances in early modern England

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Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens : women's alliances in early modern England

edited by Susan Frye, Karen Robertson

Oxford University Press, 1999

  • : pbk

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"Began as a seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting of 1993 in Atlanta and the project continued to expand"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-341) and index

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ISBN 9780195117349

Description

This collection of 16 essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory and studies of race, and consider the historical traces of women's connections in a variety of communities from cities, households and court, and classes of women from vagabonds to queens.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195117356

Description

This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities-cities, households, and court-and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections. These clear and lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of race in the early modern period.

Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS HARRIETTE ANDREADIS BARBARA BOWEN ELIZABETH A. BROWN KATHLEEN BROWN SUSAN FRYE LOWELL GALLAGHER LISA GIM MARGO HENDRICKS JEAN E. HOWARD ANN ROSALIND JONES JODI MIKALACHKI SIMON MORGAN-RUSSELL HELEN OSTOVICH KAREN ROBERTSON JESSICA TVORDI MARY WACK VALERIE WAYNE

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