Accounting for early modern women in the arts : reconsidering women’s agency, networks, and relationships
- Author
- Theresa Kemp, Catherine Powell-Warren (UGent) and Beth Link
- Organization
- Abstract
- While the terms ‘agency’, ‘collectivity’, and ‘social networks’ may seem anachronistic for the study of early modern women, these concepts were very much alive in that era and essential to women’s self-actualization. Using social network theory, feminist calls for intervention into his-tory, and conceptions of feminist collectivity (as derived from the 1970s Woman’s Building), we examine two examples of women’s involvement in professional arts. While some women succeeded by circumventing gendered institutions impeding their agency, others participated in family endeavors that depended on their acting as agents negotiating various networks. These diverse stories provide alternatives to the ‘master narratives’ according to which early modern women either conformed to or rebelled against the supposedly universal mandate to stay home, obey husbands, and rear children.
- Keywords
- women and botany, feminist collectives, Rose Theater, The Woman’s Building, intersectionality
Citation
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8749137
- MLA
- Kemp, Theresa, et al. “Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts : Reconsidering Women’s Agency, Networks, and Relationships.” Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity, edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, vol. 13, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 283–308, doi:10.1515/9789048550937-015.
- APA
- Kemp, T., Powell-Warren, C., & Link, B. (2021). Accounting for early modern women in the arts : reconsidering women’s agency, networks, and relationships. In M. Wiesner-Hanks (Ed.), Challenging women’s agency and activism in Early Modernity (Vol. 13, pp. 283–308). https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550937-015
- Chicago author-date
- Kemp, Theresa, Catherine Powell-Warren, and Beth Link. 2021. “Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts : Reconsidering Women’s Agency, Networks, and Relationships.” In Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity, edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, 13:283–308. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550937-015.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Kemp, Theresa, Catherine Powell-Warren, and Beth Link. 2021. “Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts : Reconsidering Women’s Agency, Networks, and Relationships.” In Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity, ed by. Merry Wiesner-Hanks, 13:283–308. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. doi:10.1515/9789048550937-015.
- Vancouver
- 1.Kemp T, Powell-Warren C, Link B. Accounting for early modern women in the arts : reconsidering women’s agency, networks, and relationships. In: Wiesner-Hanks M, editor. Challenging women’s agency and activism in Early Modernity. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press; 2021. p. 283–308.
- IEEE
- [1]T. Kemp, C. Powell-Warren, and B. Link, “Accounting for early modern women in the arts : reconsidering women’s agency, networks, and relationships,” in Challenging women’s agency and activism in Early Modernity, vol. 13, M. Wiesner-Hanks, Ed. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 283–308.
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abstract = {{While the terms ‘agency’, ‘collectivity’, and ‘social networks’ may seem anachronistic for the study of early modern women, these concepts were very much alive in that era and essential to women’s self-actualization. Using social network theory, feminist calls for intervention into his-tory, and conceptions of feminist collectivity (as derived from the 1970s Woman’s Building), we examine two examples of women’s involvement in professional arts. While some women succeeded by circumventing gendered institutions impeding their agency, others participated in family endeavors that depended on their acting as agents negotiating various networks. These diverse stories provide alternatives to the ‘master narratives’ according to which early modern women either conformed to or rebelled against the supposedly universal mandate to stay home, obey husbands, and rear children.}},
author = {{Kemp, Theresa and Powell-Warren, Catherine and Link, Beth}},
booktitle = {{Challenging women's agency and activism in Early Modernity}},
editor = {{Wiesner-Hanks, Merry}},
isbn = {{ 9789463729321}},
keywords = {{women and botany,feminist collectives,Rose Theater,The Woman’s Building,intersectionality}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{283--308}},
publisher = {{Amsterdam University Press}},
series = {{Gendering the late medieval and early modern world}},
title = {{Accounting for early modern women in the arts : reconsidering women’s agency, networks, and relationships}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550937-015}},
volume = {{13}},
year = {{2021}},
}
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