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Article: Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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Will Fisher. Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii + 224 pp. index. illus. bibl. $90. ISBN: 0-521-85851-8.
In this comprehensive study of gender identity in early modern English culture, Will Fisher argues that details matter. Specifically, handkerchiefs, codpieces, beards, and hair mattered in two important, interrelated ways: they were both the stuff of gender and that which rendered gender intelligible. While we might understand these differences as hierarchical (for example, as differences between primary or ...