Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bitter Words and the Tuning of Gender1. Feminine Contentious Speech and the Religious Imagination2. Gender and the Narratives of Scolding in the Church Courts3. Unquiet Women on the Early Modern Stage4. Witch-Speak in Late Elizabethan Docufiction5. Courtly Witch-Speak on the Jacobean Stage6. Gender and Politics in Early Quaker Women’s Prophetic “Cries”Epilogue: Margaret’s Bitter Words and the Voice of (Divine) Justice, or, Compulsory ListeningNotesBibliographyIndex

About the Author

Kirilka Stavreva is a professor of English at Cornell College. Her work has been anthologized in High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations; Women, Gender, Radical Religion; Cultural Encounters: Critical Insights; and elsewhere.
 

Reviews

“Stavreva powerfully contributes to our understanding of the nature of women's violent speech by attending not only to what women say, but how they say it. Most original here is her focus on the acoustics of women's speech and its embodied physicality.”-Deborah Willis, Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
  "Stavreva's book furthers the work of many feminist scholars, contributes to women's history, and advances our understanding of the early modern culture in its textual, sonic, and even physical manifestations."—Anna Riehl Bertolet, author of The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Queen Elizabeth I