Feminist rewriting of history is designed not merely to reshape our collective memory and collective imaginary but also to challenge deeply ingrained paradigms about knowledge production. This feminist rewriting raises important questions for early modern scholars, especially in bringing to life the works of our foremothers and in reconsidering women’s agency.
Recovering Women’s Past, edited by Séverine Genieys-Kirk, is a collection of essays that focus on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Scrutinizing the legacies of such politically minded women as Catherine de’ Medici, Queen Isabella of Castile, Emilie du Châtelet, and Olympe de Gouges, the volume’s contributors reflect on how our histories of women (in philosophy, literature, history, and the visual and performative arts) have been shaped by the discourses of their representation, how these discourses have been challenged, and how they can be reassessed both within and beyond the confines of academia. Recovering Women’s Past disseminates a more accurate, vital history of women’s past to engage in more creative and artistic encounters with our intellectual foremothers by creating imaginative modes of representing new knowledge. Only in these interactions will we be able to break away from the prevailing stereotypes about women’s roles and potential and advance the future of feminism.
Introduction: Unlocking Epistemic Boundaries
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Female Epistemological Authority: Was Virginia Woolf Wrong, and What Else Might Haves Happened to Judith Shakespeare?
págs. 23-37
The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy
págs. 39-58
Remembering What We Have Tried to Forget: Writing the Lives, and Collecting the Works, of Early Modern Women Artists
págs. 59-82
Controlling Powerful Women: The Emotional Historiography of Catherine de Medici
págs. 83-105
"Qualities Which Many Think Most Unlikely to Be Found in Women": Genderfluid Textualities in Samuel Torshell's The Womans Glorie (1650)
págs. 109-137
págs. 139-159
"The Cause of Liberty Still Warms My Bosom": Helen Maria Williams and the Political History of the French Revolution
págs. 161-184
Women-Authored Collaboration at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: Historiography and Gender Politics in Narratives by the Purbeck Sisters
págs. 185-209
págs. 211-234
Flora MacDonald as "the Heroine of the 45": Representations of a Jacobite Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Biographies for Children
págs. 235-261
págs. 263-293
Theater and Women in Power: The Ninon de Lenclos Phenomenon from Olympe de Gouges to Hippolyte Wouters
págs. 295-333
Citoyenne Center Stage: The Creation of the Play Olympe de Gouges porteuse d'espoir
págs. 335-351
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