Maternal Measures

Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-71112-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

This title was first published in 2001. Focusing attention on the neglected area of relations between brothers and sisters during the early modern period, this volume explores the sibling dynamics that shaped family relations in Italy, England, France, Spain, and Germany. Using an array of feminist and cultural studies approaches, prominent scholars consider sibling ties from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives - including art history, musicology, literary studies, and social history - to articulate underlying paradigms according to which sibling relations were constructed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yavneh, Naomi

Miller, Naomi J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Mothering others: caregiving as spectrum and spectacle in the early modern period, Naomi J. Miller; Part I Conception and Lactation: Mirrors of language, mirrors of self: the conceptualization of artistic identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola, Judith Rose; Midwiving virility in early modern England, Caroline Bicks; To bare or not too bare: Sofonisba Anguissola’s nursing Madonna and the womanly art of breastfeeding, Naomi Yavneh; ’But blood whitened’: nursing mothers and others in early modern Britain, Rachel Trubowitz; Part II Nurture and Instruction: Language and ’Mother’s Milk’: maternal roles and the nurturing body in early modern Spanish texts, Emilie L. Bergmann; Motherhood and protestant polemics: stillbirth in Hans von Rüte’s Abgötterei (1531), Glenn Ehrstine; The Virgin’s voice: representations of Mary in seventeenth-century Italian song, Claire Fontijn; ’His open side our book’: meditation and education in Elizabeth Grymeston’s Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives, Edith Snook; Part III Domestic Production: Negativizing nurture and demonizing domesticity: the witch construct in early modern Germany, Nancy Hayes; The difficult birth of the good mother: Donneau de Visé’s L’Embarras de Godard, ou l’Accouchée, Deborah Steinberger; ’Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds’: conflicting identities of early modern English women, Mary Thomas Crane; Maternal textualities, Susan Frye; Part IV Social Authority: ’My mother musicke’: music and early modern fantasies of embodiment, Linda Phyllis Austern; Marian devotion and maternal authority in seventeenth-century England, Frances E. Dolan; Mother love: clichés and amazons in early modern England, Kathryn Schwarz; Native mothers, native others: La malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacajawea, Kari Boyd McBride; Part V Mortality: London’s mourning garment: maternity, mourning and royal succession, Patricia Phillippy; Early modern Medea: representations