TY - BOOK AU - Andrea,Bernadette AU - Cohen,Elizabeth S. AU - Cohen,Elizabeth Storr AU - Couling,Marlee J. AU - Holler,Jacqueline AU - Huffaker,Shauna AU - Kang,Min Ji AU - Leavitt-Alcántara,Brianna AU - Tonelli,Vanessa AU - Weddle,Saundra AU - kins,Cristelle TI - Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World T2 - Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World SN - 9789048553754 AV - HQ1881 .N66 2023 U1 - 305.40903 23 PY - 2023///] CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Women KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs KW - Social networks KW - Early Modern Studies KW - Gender and Sexuality Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century KW - bisacsh KW - marginalized, religious or ethnic minorities, alliances, social agents N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; Part I Mediterranean Crossings --; 1. Going Beyond Montagu. The Network of Subaltern Women in the Turkish Embassy, 1716–1718 --; 2. Gendered Naming Practices among Coptic Christians in Sixteenth- Century Cairo. A Preliminary Assessment --; 3. The “Queen of Algiers” An Enterprising Renegade in the Rome of Pope Sixtus V --; 4. An Exotic Migrant , Despina Basaraba Networks a New Life in Papal Rome circa 1600 --; Part II Local Networks in Europe --; 5. Domestic Violence and Networks of Female Support in Seventeenth- Century England --; 6. The Place-Based Networks of Sex Workers in Sixteenth-Century Venice --; 7. Making a Name in Music. Professional and Social Strategies of the Musicians at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori --; 8. Food and Drink Make Relationships. Female Alliances and Commensality in Celestina and La Lozana andaluza --; Part III Body and Spirit in Colonial Spanish America --; 9. “Wall Neighbors,” Mothers-in-Law, and Comadres. Spousal Violence and Networks of Plebeian Female Intimacy and Solidarity in Urban Neighborhoods of Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain (1550–1670) --; 10. Far from the Margins. Non-elite Single Women and Spiritual Networking in Colonial Guatemala --; Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works --; Index; restricted access N2 - Non-elite or marginalized early modern women—among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers—have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553754?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048553754 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048553754/original ER -