Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, and the author or editor of more than 30 books that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.

"These two editions bring us one step closer to making women and their legacies part of the center, rather than the edge. As Dowd reminds us, early modern women’s history and literature is still seen as marginal by the academy itself (262). This relegation to the margin can only be remedied if early modernists start embracing women, their histories, and their texts as integral parts of early modern studies. The essays in these two editions encourage their readers to do just that."
- Lotte Fikkers, Leiden University, Journal of Early Modern History 25 (2021). Joint review with Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe, Lisa Hopkins, Aidan Norrie, (eds), Amsterdam University Press, 2019

"Read as a whole, Gendered Temporalities is a powerful testament to the ongoing vitality of feminist frameworks for engaging material history, literary criticism, and theoretical debate."
- Melissa E. Sanchez, Early Modern Women, Fall 2020

Notes on Contributors Introduction Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks PART I Temporality and Materiality 1 Time, Gender, and the Mystery of English Wine Frances E. Dolan 2 Women in the Sea of Time: Domestic Dated Objects in Seventeenth-Century England Sophie Cope 3 Time, Gender, and Nonhuman Worlds Emily Kuffner, Elizabeth Crachiolo, and Dyani Johns Taff PART II Frameworks and Taxonomy of Time 4 Telling Time through Medicine: A Gendered Perspective Alisha Rankin 5 Times Told: Women Narrating the Everyday in Early Modern Rome Elizabeth S. Cohen 6 Genealogical Memory: Constructing Female Rule in Seventeenth-Century Aceh Su Fang Ng 7 Feminist Queer Temporalities in Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson Penelope Anderson and Whitney Sperrazza PART III Embodied Time 8 Embodied Temporality: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici's sacra storia, Donatello's Judith, and the Performance of Gendered Authority in Palazzo Medici, Florence Allie Terry-Fritsch 9 Maybe Baby: Pregnant Possibilities in Medieval and Early Modern Literature Holly Barbaccia, Bethany Packard, and Jane Wanniger 10 Evolving Families: Realities and Images of Stepfamilies, Remarriage, and Half-siblings in Early Modern Spain Grace E. Coolidge and Lyndan Warner Epilogue 11 Navigating the Future of Early Modern Women's Writing: Pedagogy, Feminism, and Literary Theory Michelle M. Dowd Index