Subject/Object and Beyond

"This volume brings together seventeen essays by established and emerging scholars to honour the exceptionally rich contributions and career of Colette H. Winn. The essays explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, and contributions to literature, music, politics, religion, and science. Taken together, they reveal the complexities of women's lives, roles, and portrayals, and, by extension, perceptions of gender and gender identities in the early modern period. They also represent a wide range of methodologies and theoretical approaches, reflecting some of the possibilities open to early modern scholars today"--