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1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) |
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Maidservants of London : sisterhoods of kinship and labor / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Women, work, and plays in an English medieval town / Mary Wack -- Women's networks and the female vagrant : a hard case / Jodi Mikalachki -- "No good thing ever comes out of it" : male expectation and female alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward ho / Simon Morgan-Russell -- "P[ar]cell of murdereing bitches" : female relationships in an eighteenth-century slaveholding household / Kathleen M. Brown -- Appropriation of pleasure in The magnetic lady / Helen Ostovich -- Female alliance and the construction of homoeroticism in As you like it and Twelfth night / Jessica Tvordi -- "Companion me with my mistress" : Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and their waiting women / Elizabeth A. Brown -- Tracing women's connections from a letter by Elizabeth Ralegh / Karen Robertson -- Sewing connections : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and seventeenth-century anonymous needleworkers / Susan Frye -- "Faire Eliza's Chaine" : two female writers' literary links to Queen Elizabeth I / Lisa Gim -- Mary Ward's "Jesuitresses" and the construction of a typological community / Lowell Gallagher -- Dearth of the author : anonymity's allies and Swetnam the woman-hater / Valerie Wayne -- Erotics of female friendship in early modern England / Harriette Andreadis -- Alliance and exile : Aphra Behn's racial identity / Margo Hendricks -- Aemilia Lanyer and the invention of white womanhood / Barbara Bowen |
| Summary |
These essays consider women's alliances in early modern England, ranging over a variety of communities and classes of women to explore the traces of women's connections. The essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of race |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-341) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Women -- England -- History
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Women -- Social networks -- England
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Female friendship -- England
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Women and literature -- England
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Women in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Female friendship
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Women in literature
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Women
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Women and literature
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Women -- Social networks
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Soziales Netzwerk
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Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
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Freundschaft
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Literatur
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Interpersoonlijke relaties.
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Women.
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Womyn.
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Women's friendships.
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Women -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women -- Social networks -- Great Britain -- History.
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Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women in literature -- History.
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Social & cultural history.
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England.
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16th century, c 1500 to c 1599.
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17th century, c 1600 to c 1699.
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European history.
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Gender studies: women & girls.
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Social groups.
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History.
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England
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England
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Atlanta <Ga., 1993>
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Englisch.
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proceedings (reports)
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frye, Susan, 1952-
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Robertson, Karen, 1947-
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| LC no. |
98003448 |
| ISBN |
1423759850 |
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9781423759850 |
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1602562393 |
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9781602562394 |
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1280470437 |
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9781280470431 |
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0195353595 |
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9780195353594 |
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9786610470433 |
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661047043X |
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