Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of figures and tables 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Part I Choosing and Creating
6. 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency 25
7. 2. Setting up House 65
8. 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance 85
9. Part II Confronting Power
10. 4. Confronting Women’s Actions in History 107
11. 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times? 119
12. 6. Why Political Theory is Women’s Work 141
13. 7. ‘Wrestling the World from Fools’ 163
14. Part III Challenging Representations
15. 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter 183
16. 9. The Agency of Portrayal 207
17. 10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the ‘Medieval Housebook’ 229
18. Part IV Forming Communities
19. 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont 253
20. 12. Religious Spaces in the Far East 269
21. 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts 283
22. Index 309