Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe. In recent years
Agency is the pivot, says Nevitt (Renaissance literature, U. of Sheffield) in his study of how groups of non-aristocratic women responded to an assortment of assumptions about--and interdictions or pr
Seeking to rescue 17th-century French salons from the ridicule they have labored under since Moliere, Beasley (French, Dartmouth College), finds them to be a rich terrain for studying the fabrication
