Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700

Harvey, Tamara

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2008

174

Dura

Inglês

9780754664529

15 a 20 dias

A study that offers readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation.
Contents: Introduction: Modesty's charge: feminist functionalism and 17th-century feminist theory; 'Now sisters ... impart your usefulnesse, and force': Anne Bradstreet's feminist functionalism; 'Cuerpo luminoso': body and soul in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's Promero SueA+/-o; 'I doe not thinke the body that dyes shall rise agayne': Anne Hutchinson's mortalism as feminist functionalism; Femmes fortes: mysticism and the female apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.