Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Part I: Temporality and materiality
5. 1. Time, gender, and the mystery of English wine 19
6. 2. Women in the sea of time: Domestic dated objects in seventeenth-century England 47
7. 3. Time, gender, and nonhuman worlds 69
8. Part II: Frameworks and taxonomy of time
9. 4. Telling time through medicine: A gendered perspective 95
10. 5. Times told: Women narrating the everyday in early modern Rome 115
11. 6. Genealogical memory: Constructing female rule in seventeenth-century Aceh 135
12. 7. Feminist queer temporalities in Aemilia Lanyer and Lucy Hutchinson 159
13. Part III: Embodied time
14. 8. Embodied temporality: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici’s sacra storia, Donatello’s Judith, and the performance of gendered authority in Palazzo Medici, Florence 187
15. 9. Maybe baby: Pregnant possibilities in medieval and early modern literature 213
16. 10. Evolving families: Realities and images of stepfamilies, remarriage, and halfsiblings in early modern Spain 235
17. Epilogue
18. 11. Navigating the future of early modern women’s writing: Pedagogy, feminism, and literary theory 261
19. Index 283