Contents
Introduction
Rewriting the Lying-In
Sweet Chains and Happy Prisons
Redressing the Past
Forum: Early Modern Women’s Dis/Abilities
Disability Histories from the Convent
Insolent Visions
Sexual and Economic Constructions of Women’sLameness
The Extremity of Illness
Opting Out
A Fruitless, Female Body
The Convent of Pleasure
A Tale of Two Painters
Portraying Pregnancy
Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland
Bess of Hardwick: New Perspectives
Fruit of the Orchard
Dancing Queen
Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Nuns Navigating the Spanish Empire
Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration
The Labor of the Mind
Great Women on Stage
Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain
The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain
Pathologies of Love
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries
Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature
Femmes à la cour de France
Contributors’ Notes