Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies in Early Modern England....Pages 15-35
Anne Southwell and the Pamphlet Debate: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Manuscript....Pages 37-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Muzzling the Competition: Rachel Speght and the Economics of Print....Pages 57-77
Women’s Popular Culture? Teaching the Swetnam Controversy....Pages 79-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
The Broadside Ballad and the Woman’s Voice....Pages 103-120
“Weele have a Wench shall be our Poet”: Samuel Rowlands’ Gossip Pamphlets....Pages 121-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
The Mat(t)er of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi....Pages 141-160
“Hens should be served first”: Prioritizing Maternal Production in the Early Modern Pamphlet Debate....Pages 161-184
Crossed-Dressed Women and Natural Mothers: “Boundary Panic” in Hic Mulier....Pages 185-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women’s Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travails of Mistris Parliament and Mris. Rump....Pages 209-230
Elizabeth, Gender, and the Political Imaginary of Seventeenth-Century England....Pages 231-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-265