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| Notes on Contributors |
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Mothering Others: Caregiving as Spectrum and Spectacle in the Early Modern Period |
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| PART I CONCEPTION AND LACTATION |
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Mirrors of Language, Mirrors of Self: The Conceptualization of Artistic Identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola |
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29 | (20) |
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Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England |
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49 | (16) |
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To Bare or Not Too Bare: Sofonisba Anguissola's Nursing Madonna and the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding |
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65 | (17) |
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``But Blood Whitened'': Nursing Mothers and Others in Early Modern Britain |
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82 | (23) |
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| PART II NURTURE AND INSTRUCTION |
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Language and ``Mothers' Milk'': Maternal Roles and the Nurturing Body in Early Modern Spanish Texts |
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105 | (16) |
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Motherhood and Protestant Polemics: Stillbirth in Hans von Rute's Abgotterei (1531) |
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121 | (14) |
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The Virgin's Voice: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song |
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135 | (28) |
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``His open side our book'': Meditation and Education in Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives |
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163 | (16) |
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| PART III DOMESTIC PRODUCTION |
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Negativizing Nurture and Demonizing Domesticity: The Witch Construct in Early Modern Germany |
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179 | (22) |
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The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Vise's L'Embarras de Godard, ou l'Accouchee |
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201 | (11) |
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``Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds'': Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women |
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212 | (12) |
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224 | (15) |
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| PART IV SOCIAL AUTHORITY |
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``My Mother Musicke'': Music and Early Modern Fantasies of Embodiment |
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239 | (43) |
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Marian Devotion and Maternal Authority in Seventeenth-Century England |
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282 | (11) |
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Mother Love: Cliches and Amazons in Early Modern England |
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293 | (13) |
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Native Mothers, Native Others: La Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacajawea |
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306 | (13) |
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| PART V MORTALITY |
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London's Mourning Garment: Maternity, Mourning and Royal Succession |
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319 | (14) |
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Early Modern Medea: Representations of Child Murder in the Street Literature of Seventeenth-Century England |
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333 | (15) |
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``I fear there will a worse come in his place'': Surrogate Parents and Shakespeare's Richard III |
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348 | (15) |
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