The Ashgate research companion to women and gender in early modern Europe / edited by Allyson M. Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine A. McIver.

Contents: The permeable cloister / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- Literature by women religious in early modern Catholic Europe and the New World / Alison Weber -- Convent creativity / Marilyn Dunn -- Convent music : an examination / Kimberlyn Montford -- Lay patronage and religious art / Catherine E. King -- Female religious communities beyond the convent / Susan E. Dinan -- Protestant movements / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- Protestant women's voices / Jane Couchman -- Maternity / Lianne McTavish -- Upending patriarchy : rethinking marriage and family in early modern Europe / Allyson M. Poska -- The economics and politics of marriage / Jutta Gisela Sperling -- Before the law / Lyndan Warner -- Permanent impermanence : continuity and rupture in early modern sexuality studies / Katherine Crawford -- Women and work / Janine M. Lanza -- Old women in early modern Europe : age as an analytical category / Lynn Botelho -- Women on the margins / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- Women and political power in early modern Europe / Carole Levin and Alicia Meyer -- The Querelle des femmes / Julie D. Campbell -- Intellectual women in early modern Europe / Diana Robin -- Women in science and medicine, 1400-1800 / Alisha Rankin -- Early modern women artists / Sheila ffolliott -- Beyond Isabella and beyond : secular women patrons of art in early modern Europe / Sheryl E. Reiss -- Material culture : consumption, collecting and domestic goods / Katherine A. McIver -- Images of women / Andrea Pearson -- Women, gender, and music / Linda Phyllis Austern.