Rebecca Laroche Livres

Focusing on gender dynamics within herbal literature, this study explores how female writers assert their authority in herbal practice through language. By analyzing print vernacular herbals and incorporating extensive archival research, the author uncovers new insights into women's ownership of medical texts. The examination spans various genres and formats, highlighting the rhetorical strategies employed by women in the field of herbalism.

Focusing on the intersection of gender and herbal practices, this study analyzes print vernacular herbals through the lens of female authorship. It highlights the rhetorical strategies employed by women in claiming herbal knowledge, supported by extensive archival research. The findings reveal new insights into women's ownership and contributions to medical texts, showcasing their significant role in the history of herbal medicine across different formats.

Introduction: Ecofeminism and the Seeds of Time -- 1. Ecofeminism matters -- 2. Of mouseholes and housefires : transcorporeal domesticity -- 3. How we know anything -- 4. The dynamic object -- Conclusion: Nature, stir : ecofeminists in the archive.

Within early modern scholarship, ecocriticism has steadily gained footing, and early modern literary studies looks increasingly 'green'; yet the field lacks an accessible collection on reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Filling this gap in the literature, this book includes a diverse selection of chapters that engage the complex issues that arise when reading and teaching early modern texts from a green perspective.