Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700 |
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Author:
| Harvey, Tamara |
Series title: | Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7546-6452-9 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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Imprint: | Routledge |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $116.00 |
Book Description:
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Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana In#65533;s de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by
Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana In#65533;s de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by