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    Recovering Women's Past
    New Epistemologies, New Ventures

    Séverine Genieys-Kirk (Edited by)

    9781496231796

    Hardback, published 1 June 2023

    390 pages, 7 illustrations, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.716 kg

    “Extremely important. In many academic departments, schools, and even in the public forum, we are having to fight for women authors, artists, or politicians to be added to historical records, monuments, libraries, and curricula. This is in great part, as this volume shows very well, because they are not treated by historians or researchers with the respect due to their achievements but always as women first, whether virtuous and pious mother types or courtesans and ‘lunatics.’ This book highlights the ways in which women of the past were and still are excluded from the history of their disciplines and contributes to their recovery.”-Sandrine BergÈs, author of A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics
    “This book refocuses and revivifies the field of early modern feminist studies at a moment when the humanities are rightfully reevaluating how knowledge is created and how this epistemic process has marginalized, abstracted, obfuscated, and repressed the lives and voices of entire cultural, ethnic, and gender groups. . . . Having all these essays and reflections on approaches to studying the field together in one volume is invaluable to both scholars and students of all these fields and this topic.”-Abby E. Zanger, author of Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power

    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.

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction: Unlocking Epistemic Boundaries
    SÉ
    verine Genieys-Kirk
    Part 1. New Epistemologies
    1. Female Epistemological Authority: Was Virginia Woolf Wrong, and What Else Might Have Happened to Judith Shakespeare?
    Gina Luria Walker
    2. The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy
    Nancy Kendrick and Jessica Gordon-Roth
    3. Remembering What We Have Tried to Forget: Writing the Lives, and Collecting the Works, of Early Modern Women Artists
    Lara Perry
    4. Controlling Powerful Women: The Emotional Historiography of Catherine de’
    Medici
    Susan Broomhall
    Part 2. New Ventures
    5. “
    Qualities Which Many Think Most Unlikely to Be Found in Women”
    : Genderfluid Textualities in Samuel Torshell’
    s The Womans Glorie (1650)
    Carme Font Paz
    6. Madame du ChÂ
    telet and the Dangers of the Female Intellect
    Sarah Hutton
    7. “
    The Cause of Liberty Still Warms My Bosom”
    : Helen Maria Williams and the Political History of the French Revolution
    Paula Yurss Lasanta
    8. Women-Authored Collaboration at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: Historiography and Gender Politics in Narratives by the Purbeck Sisters
    MarÍ
    a JesÚ
    s Lorenzo-Modia
    9. Queen Isabella of Castile in Nineteenth-Century British and American Biographical Collections
    BegoÑ
    a Lasa-&
    Aacute
    lvarez
    10. Flora MacDonald as “
    the Heroine of the ’
    45”
    : Representations of a Jacobite Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Biographies for Children
    Anne Marie Hagen
    11. Mary, Queen of Scots, in Juvenile Literature, 1987–
    2012
    Armel Dubois-Nayt
    12. Theater and Women in Power: The Ninon de Lenclos Phenomenon from Olympe de Gouges to Hippolyte Wouters
    SÉ
    verine Genieys-Kirk
    13. Citoyenne Center Stage: The Creation of the Play Olympe de Gouges porteuse d’
    espoi    r
    Clarissa Palmer
    Contributors
    Index
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