Shifrin - Women As Sites of Culture : Womens Roles in Cultural Formation From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

First published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing

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Women as sites of culture : womens roles in cultural

formation from the Renaissance to the twentieth-century

1. Women - History - Renaissance, 1450-1600 2. Women

History - Modern period, 1600- 3. Women in literature

4. Women - Social conditions 5. Women - Public opinion

History

I. SWfrin, Susan

305.4'2'09

Library of Congress Control Number: 2001099664

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0311-5 (hbk)

SUDIPTO CHATTERJEE is Assistant Professor of Drama at Tufts University, Boston. He received his PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. His essay included here has been extracted from a chapter in his forthcoming book The Colonial Stage(d): Hybridity, Woman and the Nation in 19th Century Bengali Theatre. His scholarly work has been published in several anthologies and journals internationally. Originally from Calcutta, Chatterjee is also a playwright-performer-director-filmmaker whose work has been seen in India, Bangladesh, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

ELIZABETH V. CHEW is Associate Curator of Collections at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. Chew received her PhD in art history from the University of North Carolina. Her dissertation examines female architectural patronage and art collecting in seventeenth-century Britain. Her research interests include the relationships among architecture, material culture, and gender and family identities in early modern Britain and America. She has an essay on the Countess of Arundels collection at Tart Hall forthcoming in The Evolution of English Collecting, from Yale University Press.

LISA PLUMMER CRAFTON is Professor of English at the State University of West Georgia. Her scholarly expertise is in British Romantic literature and womens literature. Her most recent publications include the edited volume The French Revolution Debate in English Literature and Culture (Greenwood Press, 1997) and Insipid Decency: Modesty and Female Sexuality in Wollstonecraft in European Romantic Review (Summer 2000).

ROBIN DEROSA is currently completing her doctorate in English at Tufts University. Her dissertation, titled Scholars, Specters, and Sightseers: The Salem Witch Trials and American Memory, concerns the relationships between the history of colonial New England and current-day tourist productions. Her work deals with theories of performativity and the connections between identity and theatricality. She has recently published work in The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, In-Between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism, and Postscript. She also has an essay on Olaudah Equiano forthcoming in The Connecticut Review.

REINA GREEN is currently completing her dissertation on constructions of listening in early modern drama in the Department of English, Dalhousie University. She has published on Mary Sidneys Tragedy of Antonie and on early modern women translators with Brown Universitys Renaissance Women Online and has an article forthcoming in Studies in English Literature on listening in The Tragedy of Mariam and The Duchess of Malfi.

LISA JOHNSON received her PhD in English from Binghamton University, where she recently completed a dissertation on positive re-readings of the female body in American literature. Her research interests include feminist theory and female sexuality, the subject of the forthcoming collection to be published by Four Walls, Eight Windows, Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, for which she is the editor. She now teaches composition at the State University of West Georgia.

ETSUKO KATO is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies at International Christian University in Tokyo. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto, after which she held a postdoctoral research post at the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation on the present-day practice of the tea ceremony was based on field research carried out from 1998 to 1999. She has published several articles and presented a number of papers focusing on the Japanese tea ceremony and Japanese culture. Her research interests include traditional Japanese culture in modern times, the rise of Japanese cultural nationalism following World War II, and how these interrelate with notions of gender.

RUTH ELLEN KOCHER is Assistant Professor of American Literature, specializing in African American Literature, at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Her first book, Desdemonas Fire, was published by Lotus Press in 1999 and won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her most recent article, co-authored with Keith Miller and titled Narrativizing Oratory in Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, appeared in Approaches to Teaching Frederick Douglass, from the Modern Language Association Series on Teaching World Literature (Fall 1999).

SUSAN LAMB is Assistant Professor of English at University of Toronto at Scarborough. She is finishing a book, titled Bringing Travel Home, on the intersections among gender, tourism, and literature, and has published articles on the subject in journals such as Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Comparative Drama. She also works on the connections between drama and the novel in the eighteenth century.

LYNN LUBAMERSKY received her PhD in history at Indiana University and is now Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. Lubamersky is currently revising her dissertation, Women in Family Politics, for publication as a book. She has published an article titled Women and Political Patronage in the Politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in The Polish Review (1999), as well as several book reviews in The Polish Review and The Slavic Review.

ELIZABETH MCCARTNEY is a visiting assistant professor at The Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. She is completing a two-volume study on the use of emotion in political theory and royal ceremonial in late-medieval and early modern France.

MARJORIE OCH received her doctorate in art history from Bryn Mawr College and is now Associate Professor of Art History at Mary Washington College. Her essay here on Vittoria Colonna is a continuation of the work she did in her dissertation. A related article appears in Beyond Isabella (eds. Reiss and Wilkins, 2001). Och is currently working on Colonnas patronage of a womens religious community in Rome, as well as on Giorgio Vasaris descriptions in his