Mois : juillet 2018

Early Modern Women and Transnational Salons, Circles, and Academies

Écrit par admin le juillet 2, 2018. Publié dans Appels à contribution.

2019 RSA During the past decade, increased scholarly attention has been given to early modern women’s participation in cultural production through groups—salons, literary circles, scientific and philosophical circles and academies, religious circles, and correspondence and patronage networks. Panelists are invited to consider the following:-Salons, circles, academies, and networks enabling women to participate in cultural production—literary, scientific, philosophical, religious, and/or political-the sociopolitical conditions/strictures in such groups-Participation in such groups across...

Aide de la Société d’Etude du XVIIe siècle à destination de jeunes docteurs non statutaires

Écrit par admin le juillet 2, 2018. Publié dans Postes, Prix et Bourses.

Lors de son Conseil d’administration du 25 mai 2018, la Société d’Etude du XVIIe siècle a décidé d’accorder une aide, deux fois par an, à des journées d’études organisées par de jeunes docteurs ne bénéficiant pas d’une position statutaire dans un établissement de recherche ou d’enseignement supérieur.La Société d’Étude du XVIIe siècle se propose d’étudier tout projet scientifique argumenté, centré sur le XVIIe siècle (toutes disciplines confondues) : les candidats à cette aide devront fournir un argumentaire détaillé et un programme prévisionnel. La somme allouée ne pourra pas excéder 800...

Regulation and Resistance: Gender and Coercive Power in Early Modern Literature

Écrit par admin le juillet 2, 2018. Publié dans Appels à contribution.

Early modern English culture consistently imagines the regulation of feminine bodies, whether through virtuous exempla, cautionary tales, education and conduct books, medical diagnosis and advice, literary plots or tropes, fashion, or physical disciplines such as needlework, dance, or music lessons. Prescriptions for early modern gender include the watchful regulation of fathers, husbands, doctors, and teachers over women’s intellectual and moral education as well as over their physical activity. Representations of the internalized practice of self-regulation reveal that early modern women...

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Écrit par admin le juillet 2, 2018. Publié dans Appels à contribution.

Following another very successful Attending to Early Modern Women conference last week, we would like to invite you to consider submitting your work to Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. EMWJ is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. Each volume gathers essays on early modern women from every country and region by scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, music, history, languages and literatures, political...

He Said – She Said: Women’s Words in Defence of Women

Écrit par admin le juillet 2, 2018. Publié dans Appels à contribution.

Renaissance Society of America Annual MeetingToronto, 17-19 March 2019“Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.” – The Worth of Women (1600)Writing about women in the late medieval and early modern period focused on ideals of female behaviour. In the 16th and 17th centuries the discussion became a public debate over not just how women should act, but also whether or not they were even capable...