Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity

Abstract

1st ed. Foreword: Sylvia Bowerbank (1947-2005) / Mary O'Connor and Sara Mendelson -- Introduction: In dialogue with nature: new ecofeminist approaches to early modernity / Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche -- N/nature and the difference "she" makes / Lynne Dickson Bruckner -- First "mother of science": Milton's Eve, knowledge, and nature / Jennifer Munroe -- Ecofeminist Eve: artists reading Milton's heroine / Wendy Furman-Adams and Virginia James Tufte -- On Elizabeth Isham's "oil of swallows": animal slaughter and early modern women's medical recipes / Michelle DiMeo and Rebecca Laroche -- Woolley's mouse: early modern recipe books and the uses of nature / David Goldstein -- Preserving nature in Hannah Woolley's The queen-like closet; or Rich cabinet / Amy L. Tigner -- "Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers": the domestic geography of Elizabeth Isham's My booke of rememberance / Hillary M. Nunn -- The secrets of grafting in Wroth's Urania / Vin Nardizzi and Miriam Jacobson -- Language "like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass": environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The history of Emily Montague / Emily Bowles -- Afterword / Rebecca Bushnell.