Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal is the only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender during the years 1400 to 1700. Each volume gathers essays on early modern women from every country and region, by scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, music, history, political science, religion, theatre, history of science, and history of philosophy.

EMWJ was founded in 2006 at the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland by Jane Donawerth, Adele Seeff, and Diane Wolfthal. Beginning with volume 2, EMWJ has been copublished with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, under the directorship of Robert E. Bjork, who has overseen the printing and distribution of the journal. William Gentrup is now the managing editor.

Starting June 2011, and with volume 7, EMWJ is edited by Anne J. Cruz, Mary Lindemann, and Mihoko Suzuki at the University of Miami; the editorial office will be housed at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities. Sarah Ritcheson, a PhD candidate in English, is editorial assistant.

The founding editors at the University of Maryland have established an award for the best article in each issue that carries a prize of $1000.

EMWJ acknowledges the support of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the Sixteenth Century Studies Society and Conference.

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Recent Volumes

Volume 6

Volume 6, now in print, includes essays by:

• • Heather Madar
• • Maggie Ellen Ray
• • Diana Robin
• • Lyndan Warner
• • J. L. Wilson
  
  

Volume 6 also includes a forum on early modern women and memory, a bibliography of publications in English in early modern women’s studies, The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 2010 prize for a graduate student conference presentation abstract (Michelle DiMeo recipient), and book reviews.

View the Contents for Volume 6 (2011)

 

Volume 5

Volume 5, includes essays by:

• • Linda C. Hults
• • Elisa Oh
• • Naomi McAreavey
• • Tara Pedersen
• • Anne E. Duggan
  
  

Volume 5 also includes a forum on sex and the early modern women, bibliographies of recent German publications in early modern women studies, two art exhibition reviews (one on Judith Leister and one on Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella), a review of the Attending to Early Modern Women Conference 2009, and and book reviews.

View the Contents for Volume 5 (2010)

 

Volume 4

Volume 4 includes essays by:

• • Joanne H. Wright
• • Peter Matheson
• • Holly Hurlburt
• • Amber Youell

Volume 4 also includes a forum on early modern women and material culture, bibliographies of recent Italian publications in early modern women studies, an art exhibition review on Renaissance art and objects depicting marriage and love, and book reviews.

View the Contents for Volume 4 (2009)

 

Volume 3
(Out of print)

Volume 3 includes essays by:

• • Linda Austern
• • Cristina Alfar
• • Anne Larsen
• • Katja-Altpeter Jones
• • Helen Hills

Volume 3 also includes a forum on the rise of the mercantile economy and early modern women, bibliographies of recent French and Spanish publications in early modern women studies, an art exhibition review on the image of women in Old Master works on display in the Spaigthwood Galleries, and book reviews.

View the Contents for Volume 3 (2008)

 

Volume 2

Volume 2 includes essays by:

• • Christopher Martin
• • Grace Fong
• • Anne Dunlop
• • Katherine R. Larson
• • Elizabeth S. Cohen
• • Suzanne Cusick

Volume 2 also includes a review, by Marjorie Och, of the “Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque” exhibition at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, as well as an extensive bibliography of publications in English in Early Modern Women’s Studies from 2004 through 2006.

View the Contents for Volume 2 (2007)

 

Volume 1
(Out of print)

This inaugural volume includes book reviews of key new studies in the field as well as essays by:

• • Margaret P. Hannay
• • Cristelle L. Baskins
• • Susan Laningham
• • John J. Conley
• • Elizabeth Mazzola
• • Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

View the Contents for Volume 1 (2006)