Introduction-- Writing elite women into the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands-- Visualizing women's work in the textile trades at the dawn of the Golden Age-- Memorializing grief in familial and national narratives of Dutch identity-- Imagining domesticity in early modern Dutch dolls' houses-- The Rembrandt House and the Rubens House: encountering early modern women through heritage sites-- Sources and settings: the uses of place for tourism, heritage and history-- Purchasing the past: gender and the consumption of heritage-- Conclusion: from yesterday to tomorrow: seeing and hearing women in the Low Countries-- List of woks cited-- Index.