Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World / edited by Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller.

Introduction : sex education / Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller -- Part I. Debates and directions. Ain't I a Ladie? : race, sexuality, and early modern women writers / Melissa E. Sanchez -- Early modern bodies that matter / Mario DiGangi -- Regendering the sublime and the beautiful : Shakespeare's Cleopatra and feminist formalism / Katherine B. Attie ́-- Part II. Authorship and patronage. Women and literary production / Stephen Guy-Bray -- Ambiguities of female authorship and the accessible archive / Marcy L. North -- Patterns of print : women's textual patronage in the "early" early modern period / Patricia Pender -- Picturing the agency of widows : female patronage among the gentry and the middling sort of Elizabethan England / Tarnya Cooper -- Women's labor and the Little Gidding harmonies / Whitney Trettien -- Part III. The matter of reform. "A witch! Who is not?" : demonic contagion, gender, and class in The witch of Edmonton / Mary Floyd-Wildon -- "A Womans Logicke" : Puritan women writers and the rejection of education / Christina Luckyj -- Prosopopoeia, gender, and religion : the poetry of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots / Rosalind Smith -- Dying offstage : gender and martyrdom in 1 Henry VI / Elizabeth Williamson -- Part IV. Bodies of knowledge. Flesh-eaters : gender, bodies, and labor in early modern art and literature / Karen Raber -- "Add thereto a tiger's chaudron" : ingredients, instructions, and the early modern recipe book / Gitanjali Shahani and Emily S. Farris -- "From a drudge, to...a cook" : hidden and ostentatious labor in the early modern household / Mary Trull and Rebecca Laroche -- "[T]he monkey duchess all undressed" : simians, satire, and women in seventeenth-century England / Holly Dugan -- Gender, knowledge, and the medical marketplace : the case of Margaret Cavendish / Laura L. Knoppers -- Part V. The place of production. Counter-narratives of survival : Amerindian and African women in early Caribbean literatures / Julie Chun Kim -- Constructing white privilege : transatlantic slavery, reproduction, and the segregation of the marriage plot in the late seventeenth century / Valerie Forman.

All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how the body’s transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of the body – in social and political terms – gives it shape.

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