03144nam 2200685Ia 450 991082370760332120200520144314.01-351-93652-21-351-93653-01-315-25526-X1-281-76590-297866117659030-7546-8117-310.4324/9781315255262 (CKB)1000000000553063(EBL)438699(OCoLC)323304445(SSID)ssj0000154720(PQKBManifestationID)11158262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154720(PQKBWorkID)10418788(PQKB)10908922(MiAaPQ)EBC438699(Au-PeEL)EBL438699(CaPaEBR)ebr10250441(CaONFJC)MIL176590(OCoLC)966310557(OCoLC)224443172(FINmELB)ELB154303(EXLCZ)99100000000055306320080407d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFiguring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-1700 /Tamara Harvey1st ed.Aldershot Ashgatec20081 online resource (174 p.)Women and gender in the early modern worldFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-6452-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modesty's Charge: Feminist Functionalism and Seventeenth-Century Feminist Theory; 1 "Now Sisters ... impart your usefulnesse, and force": Anne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism; 2 "Cuerpo Luminoso": Body and Soul in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero Sueño; 3 "I doe not thinke the Body that dyes shall rise agayne": Anne Hutchinson's Mortalism as Feminist Functionalism; 4 Femmes fortes: Mysticism and the Female Apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation; Conclusion; Bibliography; IndexInventive 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 Inés 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 women, and explores how these women engaged in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates of the time.Women and gender in the early modern world.Literature, Modern17th centuryHistory and criticismAmericaLiteraturesHistory and criticismAmericaLiteraturesWomen authorsLiterature, ModernHistory and criticism.810.9/928709032Harvey Tamara1966-1669632MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823707603321Figuring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-17004030929UNINA