Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas
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early modern women
enslaved women
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exile
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indentured women
Indigenous women
narratives of exile
networks in exile
political exile
refugees and migration
religious exile
women and law
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- ISBN 9781526197931
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women’s experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women’s agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women’s experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.
Linda Levy Peck was a Professor of History Emerita at George Washington University
Adrianna E. Bakos is an Associate Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley
