ABSTRACT
This title was first published in 2000: Care-givers in the early modern period included not only mothers and stepmothers, but also midwives and nurses, tutors and educators, wise women and witches. The contributors to this volume present research and criticism on a wide range of early modern care-giving roles by women in England, Italy, Spain, France, Latin America, Mexico and the New World. The essays are not only cross-cultural but also interdisciplinary, spanning literature, history, music and art history; and they focus on differences of gender, class and race. A wide variety of scholarly and critical approaches are represented. Essays are grouped in categories on conception and lactation; maternal nurture and instruction; domestic production; and social authority.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter One|25 pages
Mothering Others: Caregiving as Spectrum and Spectacle in the Early Modern Period
part I|1 pages
Conception and Lactation
chapter Chapter Four|17 pages
To Bare or Not Too Bare: Sofonisba Anguissola’s Nursing Madonna and the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
chapter Chapter Five|20 pages
“But Blood Whitened”: Nursing Mothers and Others in Early Modern Britain
part II|1 pages
Nurture and Instruction
chapter Chapter Six|16 pages
Language and “Mothers’ Milk”: Maternal Roles and the Nurturing Body in Early Modern Spanish Texts
chapter Chapter Seven|14 pages
Motherhood and Protestant Polemics: Stillbirth in Hans von Rüte’s Abgötterei (1531)
chapter Chapter Eight|28 pages
The Virgin’s Voice: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song
chapter Chapter Nine|13 pages
“His open side our book”: Meditation and Education in Elizabeth Grymeston’s Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives
part III|1 pages
Domestic Production
chapter Chapter Ten|22 pages
Negativizing Nurture and Demonizing Domesticity: The Witch Construct in Early Modern Germany
chapter Chapter Eleven|11 pages
The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Visé’s L’Embarras de Godard, ou l’Accouchée
chapter Chapter Twelve|12 pages
“Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds”: Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women
part IV|1 pages
Social Authority
chapter Chapter Fourteen|43 pages
“My Mother Musicke”: Music and Early Modern Fantasies of Embodiment
chapter Chapter Fifteen|11 pages
Marian Devotion and Maternal Authority in Seventeenth-Century England
chapter Chapter Seventeen|11 pages
Native Mothers, Native Others: La Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacajawea
part 5|1 pages
Mortality