Voicing Women

A few days ago I received via interlibrary loan the book Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. This is a great book with a lot in it to add to any of our paper topics. It's a collection of essays by various authors that all focus on different aspects of how women were portrayed before and after Elizabeth, and especially the rising amount of women authors and art that was intended for female audiences. Here are some of the essays in the book that might be useful, "Women Writers and Women Readers: The Case of Aemilia Lanier" by Jacquelin Pearson, "The Canonization of Elizabeth Cary" by Stephanie Wright, The torture of Limena: Sex and Violence in Mary Wroth's Urania" by Helen Hackett, Iconography of the Blush: Marian Literature of the 1630's" by Danielle Clark, "Playing 'the Masculine Part': Finding a difference within Behn's Poetry" by Bronwen Price, "Read within: Gender, Cultural Difference and Quaker Women's Travel Narratives" by Susan Wiseman, "Contra-dictions: WOmen as Figures of exclusion and resistance in John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont's Narratives" by Tamsin Sargo, and "Seditious Sisterhood: Women Publishers of Opposition Literature at the Restoration" by Maureen Bell. Just a side note, but I wonder if Agnes Beaumont has anything to do with Francis Beaumont. This is an excellent book for anybody looking into the portrayal of women and their role in the art world of Early Modern England. I have the book right now if anyone wants to borrow it.