Embodiment, identity, and gender in the early modern age / edited by Amy E. Leonard and David M. Whitford

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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword: A reflection on Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: The body and manifestations of gender -- 1. The strange survival of the bleeding corpse -- Notes -- 2. Martin Luther and the Reformation of virginity -- Notes -- 3. Martin Luther's gendered reflections on Eve -- Be fruitful and multiply: Genesis 1:27-28 -- The malediction of Eve: Genesis 3:16 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. A "Prodigal Son" remembers John of the Cross -- Notes -- 5. Women, conflict, and peacemaking in German villages -- The Niedergericht in Mainau in action -- The fate of Johanna Silberin, Wirtin in Mimmenhausen -- Notes -- 6. James I and unruly women -- Notes -- Part II: Women between reform, subversion, and self-determination -- 7. Protestant and Catholic nuns confronting the reformation -- Early reform propaganda and the norming of departure -- Visitations -- The creation of memory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8. Female religious communities during the Thirty Years' War -- Notes -- 9. Conflicts between male reformers and female monastics -- Notes -- 10. Anna Maria van Schurman: Poetry as exegesis -- The text and character of the Gesang -- The structure and content of the Gesang -- Themes and influences in the Gesang -- Notes -- 11. Sacral systems: The challenge of change -- Notes -- 12. Catholic women in the Dutch Golden Age -- Notes -- 13. Women and religious expression in Calvin's Geneva -- Notes -- Part III: Gendered dynamics of displacement, migration, and conflict -- 14. Women, gender, and religious refugees -- Notes -- 15. Refugee wives, widows, and mothers -- Notes -- 16. Did the Jesuits introduce "Global Studies"? -- Notes -- 17. Devotion at sea: Ship voyages and Jesuit masculinity -- Notes.

18. Spanish women, work, and the early modern Atlantic economy -- Spanish economic policy and women's labor -- Women and the Atlantic service economy -- Atlantic slavery and the redefinition of European women's work -- Notes -- Afterword: Looking backwards and forward -- I. Women's and gender history -- II. The Wider world -- Notes -- Index.