Women As Sites of Culture : Women's Roles in Cultural Formation From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction Part I: The Female Body As the Site of Polemics 1 The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England 2 'As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment 3 Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s 4 'We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior 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 Part II: Staging the Sights of Culture, Staging Women: Theater, Ritual, and Ceremony 6 Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renasissance Ceremonial 7 Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Clcopatra in Early Modern Drama 8 Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman 9 Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater 10 'Art' for Men, 'Manners' for Women: How Women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan Part III: Si(gh)ting the Woman as Cultural Resource 11 Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman 12 Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space 13 The 'Wild Woman' in the Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 14 'At the end of the Walk by Madam Mazarines Lodgings': Si(gh)ting the Transgressive Woman in Acounts of the Restoration Court Part IV: The Female Voice As the Site of Cultural Authority 15 'Why do you call me to teach the court?': Anne Hutchinson and the Making of Cultural Authority 16 A Criticism of Contradication: Anna Leticia Barbauld and the 'Problem' of Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing 17 Silent at the Wall: Women in Israeli Remembrance Day Ceremonies 18 Revisiting a Site of Cultural Bondage: JoAnn Gibson Robinson's Boycott Memoir Bibliography Index