Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France. Essays in Honour of Colette H. Winn New

… une contribution substantielle aux études sur les femmes de la première modernité.
- Luc Vaillancourt, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

These essays give an excellent sense of the very broad and incredibly varied swath of studies in early modern literature and culture that Colette Winn has influenced and helped to cultivate. The field of studying early modern women and women writers is a truly vibrant, rich, and complex one, with really exciting things happening on many fronts.
- Nora Martin Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern France brings together seventeen essays by established and emerging scholars to honour the exceptionally rich contributions and career of Colette H. Winn. The essays explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, and contributions to literature, music, politics, religion, and science. Taken together, they reveal the complexities of women’s lives, roles, and portrayals, and, by extension, perceptions of gender and gender identities in the early modern period. They also represent a wide range of methodologies and theoretical approaches, reflecting some of the possibilities open to early modern scholars today.

NANCY M. FRELICK is Associate Professor of French and Renaissance Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is currently completing two book projects: Mirrors of Desire, on mirror motifs in sixteenth-century France; and Reading, Writing, and Gender, which examines the reception of women writers of the French Renaissance.

EDITH BENKOV is Professor Emerita of French and European Studies at San Diego State University, where she also co-directs the LGBTQ Research Consortium. Her research specialties include gender, sexuality, and religious conflict in medieval and early modern Europe. She has published more than seventy articles and essays.