Collection of essays on women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period. The volume analyzes how women, from their teenage years through adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing and travel, from different parts of Europe, the Atlantic and the Pacific.
This collection of essays addresses gendered and embodied temporalities in the early modern period. It examines the ways that time structured early modern lives. The essays explore aspects of gendered temporality in England, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Aceh and Virginia. The book consists of three parts: temporality and materiality, frameworks and taxonomy of time and embodied time.