Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-368) and index.
Contents:
The color of patriarchy : critical difference, cultural difference, and Renaissance drama / Ania Loomba -- "The getting of a lawful race" : racial discourse in early modern England and the unrepresentable black woman / Lynda E. Boose -- The face of domestication : physiognomy, gender politics, and humanism's others / Juliana Schiesari -- Cannibalism, homophobia, women : Montaigne's "Des cannibales" and "De l'amitieĢ" / Carla Freccero -- Fantasies of "race" and "gender" : Africa, Othello and bringing to light / Patricia Parker -- An English lass amid the Moors : gender, race, sexuality, and national identity in Heywood's The fair maid of the West / Jean E. Howard -- Amazons and Africans : gender, race, and empire in Daniel Defoe / Laura Brown --The other woman : polygamy, Pamela, and the prerogative of empire / Felicity Nussbaum -- Re-reading Elizabeth Cary's The tragedie of Mariam, faire queene of jewry / Dympna Callaghan -- "I rather would wish to be a Black-moor" : beauty, race, and rank in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Kim F. Hall. (cont) The tenth muse : gender, rationality, and the marketing of knowledge / Stephanie Jed -- Juggling the categories of race, class, and gender : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Civility, barbarism, and Aphra Behn's The widow ranter / Margo Hendricks -- Iroquois women, European women / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Andean witches and virgins : seventeenth-century nativism and subversive gender ideologies / Irene Silverblatt -- Invaded women : gender, race, and class in the formation of colonial society / Verena Stolcke -- Othello's identity, postcolonial theory, and contemporary African rewritings of Othello / Jyotsna Singh.
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