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Iyengar, Sujata. “Strangeness: Early Modern European Women and the Invention of Whiteness.” Early Modern Literary Studies, Special Issue: European Women in Early Modern Drama 27 (2017). 1-6.
This afterword to the special issue discusses early modern European women and whiteness. The issue offers topics such as cultural and historical contexts, conceptions of gender and language, and identity markers for hierarchical social structures. The afterword asks readers to consider contemporary notions of European whiteness, religion, gender, and sexuality alongside early modern literature and history.
