Introduction

Part I The Female Body As the Site of Polemics

The Rhetoric of Corporeality and the Political Subject: Containing the Dissenting Female Body in Civil War England

`As Strong as Any Man': Sojourner Truth's Tall Tale Embodiment

Flappers and Shawls: The Female Embodiment of Irish National Identity in the 1920s

`We are going to carve revenge on your back': Language, Culture, and the Female Body in Kingston's The Woman Warrior

`If this is improper,... then I am all improper, and you must give me up': Daisy Miller and Other Uppity White Women as Resistant Emblems of America

Part II Staging the Sights of Culture, Staging Women: Theater, Ritual, and Ceremony

Bodies Political and Social: Royal Widows in Renaissance Ceremonial

Eroticizing Virtue: The Role of Cleopatra in Early Modern Drama

Applauding Shakespeare's Ophelia in the Eighteenth Century: Sexual Desire, Politics, and the Good Woman

Mother(s) of Invention: Prostitute-Actresses and Late Nineteenth-Century Bengali Theater

`Art' for Men, `Manners' for Women: How Women Transformed the Tea Ceremony in Modern Japan

Part III Si(gh)ting the Woman as Cultural Resources

Portrait Medals of Vittoria Colonna: Representing the Learned Woman

Si(gh)ting the Mistress of the House: Anne Clifford and Architectural Space

The `Wild Woman' in the Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

`At the end of the Walk by Madam Mazarines Lodgings': Si(gh)ting the Transgressive Woman in Accounts of the Restoration Court

Part IV The Female Voice As the Site of Cultural Authority

`Why do you call me to teach the court?': Anne Hutchinson and the Making of Cultural Authority

A Criticism of Contradiction: Anna Leticia Barbauld and the `Problem' of Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing

Silent at the Wall: Women in Israeli Remembrance Day Ceremonies

Revisiting a Site of Cultural Bondage: JoAnn Gibson Robinson's Boycott Memoir

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Index