Women as sites of culture : women's roles in cultural formation from the Renaissance to the twentieth century / edited by Susan Shifrin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.

The Female Body As the Site of Polemics -- The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England / Christopher Orchard -- 'As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment / Alison Piepmeier -- Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s / Louise Ryan -- 'We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Lisa Plummer Crafton -- 'If this is improper, ...then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and Other Uppity White Women as Resistant Emblems of America / Lisa Johnson -- Staging the Sights of Culture, Staging Women: Theater, Ritual, and Ceremony -- Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renaissance Ceremonial / Elizabeth McCartney -- Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Cleopatra in Early Modern Drama / Reina Green -- Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman / Susan Lamb -- Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater / Sudipto Chatterjee -- 'Art' for Men, 'Manners' for Women: How Women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan / Etsuko Kato -- Si(gh)ting the Woman as Cultural Resource -- Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman / Marjorie Och -- Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space / Elizabeth V. Chew --

1. The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England / Christopher Orchard -- 2. 'As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment / Alison Piepmeier -- 3. Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s / Louise Ryan -- 4. 'We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's: The Woman Warrior / Lisa Plummer Crafton -- 5. 'If this is improper, ... then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and Other Uppity White Women as Resistant Emblems of America / Lisa Johnson -- 6. Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renaissance Ceremonial / Elizabeth McCartney -- 7. Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Cleopatra in Early Modern Drama / Reina Green -- 8. Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman / Susan Lamb -- 9. Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater / Sudipto Chatterjee -- 10. 'Art' for Men, 'Manners' for Women: How women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan / Etsuko Kato -- 11. Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman / Marjorie Och -- 12. Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space / Elizabeth V. Chew -- 13. The 'Wild Woman' in the Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Lynn Lubamersky -- 14. 'At the end of the Walk by Madam Mazarines Lodgings': Si(gh)ting the Transgressive Woman in Accounts of the Restoration Court / Susan Shifrin -- 15. 'Why do you call me to teach the court?': Anne Hutchinson and the Making of Cultural Authority / Ross J. Pudaloff -- 16. A Criticism of Contradiction: Anna Leticia Barbauld and the 'Problem' of Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing / Robin DeRosa -- 17. Silent at the Wall: Women in Israeli Remembrance Day Ceremonies / Kristine Peleg -- 18. Revisiting a Site of Cultural Bondage: JoAnn Gibson Robinson's Boycott Memoir / Ruth Ellen Kocher.

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