Natacha Klein Käfer is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Natália da Silva Perez is Assistant Professor of Popular Culture in Historical Perspective in the School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Situating Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context.- References.- Lady Jane Lumley’s Private Education and Its Political Resonances.- Introduction: Education at a Noble Household.- The Private, the Public, and the Political in Lady Lumley’s Writings.- Lady Lumley’s The Tragedie of Euripides Called Iphigeneia.- Comparing Translations of Iphigenia at Aulis.- In Conclusion.- References.- Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production.- Herculiana’s Private Life and Connections: Biographical and Contextual Framework.- Camilla Herculiana é Gregetta, Lettere di philosophia naturale (1584).- Inquisitional Trial.- Conclusion.- References.- From Behind the Folding Screen to the Collège de France: Victorine de Chastenay’s Privacy Dynamics for Knowledge in the Making.- Note-Taking and Knowledge Acquisition as Private Practices.- Adapting the Household’s Privacy to Reconcile Writing and Social Obligations.- Privacy in Institutional Spaces.- Conclusion.- References.- “Fait à mes heures de loisir”: Women’s Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production.- The Ducal Libraries: Private Collections?.- Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel The Duchesses’ Book Use and Knowledge Production.- Private Knowledge Spaces: Concluding Remarks.- References.- Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800.- Women’s Knowledges and Publicizing the Private.- Knowledge Production at Home.- Women, Knowledge, and Their Bodies.- References.