Recovering Women's Past

SÉverine Genieys-Kirk is a lecturer of French and Francophone studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Unlocking Epistemic BoundariesSÉverine Genieys-KirkPart 1. New Epistemologies1. Female Epistemological Authority: Was Virginia Woolf Wrong, and What Else Might Have Happened to Judith Shakespeare?Gina Luria Walker2. The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of PhilosophyNancy Kendrick and Jessica Gordon-Roth3. Remembering What We Have Tried to Forget: Writing the Lives, and Collecting the Works, of Early Modern Women ArtistsLara Perry4. Controlling Powerful Women: The Emotional Historiography of Catherine de’ MediciSusan BroomhallPart 2. New Ventures5. “Qualities Which Many Think Most Unlikely to Be Found in Women”: Genderfluid Textualities in Samuel Torshell’s The Womans Glorie (1650)Carme Font Paz6. Madame du ChÂtelet and the Dangers of the Female IntellectSarah Hutton7. “The Cause of Liberty Still Warms My Bosom”: Helen Maria Williams and the Political History of the French RevolutionPaula Yurss Lasanta8. Women-Authored Collaboration at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: Historiography and Gender Politics in Narratives by the Purbeck SistersMarÍa JesÚs Lorenzo-Modia9. Queen Isabella of Castile in Nineteenth-Century British and American Biographical CollectionsBegoÑa Lasa-Álvarez10. Flora MacDonald as “the Heroine of the ’45”: Representations of a Jacobite Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Biographies for ChildrenAnne Marie Hagen11. Mary, Queen of Scots, in Juvenile Literature, 1987–2012Armel Dubois-Nayt12. Theater and Women in Power: The Ninon de Lenclos Phenomenon from Olympe de Gouges to Hippolyte WoutersSÉverine Genieys-Kirk13. Citoyenne Center Stage: The Creation of the Play Olympe de Gouges porteuse d’espoirClarissa PalmerContributorsIndex

“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