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“Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”—Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly



“Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women’s history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, and even physical manifestations.”—Anna Riehl Bertolet, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth I



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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/2015
      ISBN13: 9780803254886, 978-0803254886
      ISBN10: 0803254881
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      “Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”—Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly



      “Stavreva’s book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women’s history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, and even physical manifestations.”—Anna Riehl Bertolet, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth I



      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex

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