Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-258) and index.

Prophets, visionaries, and martyrs: Ursula Jost and her publisher Margarethe Pr�uss -- The monastic option: the struggle of the convents -- Marriage and motherhood: the preferred calling -- Learning and power: an elusive option -- "Herr Doktor" Katharina von Bora, 1499-1552, the Lutheran matriarch -- Argula von Grumbach, 1492 to 1563/68?: a Bavarian apologist and pamphleteer -- Elisabeth von Brandenburg, 1485-1555, and Elisabeth von Braunschweig, 1510-1558: exiled mothers, reforming rulers -- Katharina Sch�utz Zell, 1498-1562: a publishing church mother in Strasbourg -- Marie Denti�ere, 1495-1561: a Genevan reformer and writer -- Marguerite de Navarre, 1492-1549, and Jeanne d'Albret, 1528-1572: the protectors of the French reformers -- Ren�ee de France, 1510-1575: a friend of the Huguenots -- Olimpia Fulvia Morata, 1526/27-1555: an Italian scholar -- Conclusions and observations on gender and the Reformation

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