Overview
Considers the knowledge production processes of five early modern European women
Highlights the cultural contexts and material tensions involved in women's study and learning in early modern Europe
Argues for the central role of privacy in affording women success in knowledge production
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte in Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, will help us to exemplify the delicate balance between audacity and obedience that women had to employ to be able to explore science, literature, philosophy, theology, and other types of learned activities. Cases range from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, presenting continuities and discontinuities across temporal and geographical lines of the strategies that women used to protect their knowledge production and retain intact their reputations as good Christian daughters, wives, and mothers. Taken together, the essays show how having access to privacy—the ability to regulate access to themselves while studying and learning—was a crucial condition for the success of the knowledge activities these women pursued.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Natacha Klein Käfer is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Natália da Silva Perez is Assistant Professor of Popular Culture in Historical Perspective in the School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe
Editors: Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44731-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44730-3Published: 30 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44731-0Published: 29 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, History, general, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Early Modern Europe