"Negotiating Feminism And Faith In The Lives And Works Of Late Medieval And Early Modern Women

This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism taking into account intersecting factors such as class culture confessional stance institutional affiliation ethnicity dis/ability geography and historical circumstance. It presents thirteen original case studies on the diversity complexity and subtlety of the intersection of faith and feminism in the lives and works of twenty-two women writers over a 350-year period in six nations. Along the way it interrogates the accuracy of the view that monotheistic religions only constrict and oppress women stifling their agency autonomy and authority. |Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women