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White, Micheline, ed. English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011.

many gynocritical studies read religious women's writing as secular; "as a result, scholars viewed many female-authored religious works as marginal or depressingly acquiescent, and those that did not appear to resis gender norms were largely overlooked" (2)

"In considering this significant critical reorientation, we might note that new interpretive paradigms emerged as scholars began acknowledging the central (rather than marginal) place of religious writing in Renaissance England; began reading women's religious texts as religious texts; and began positioning them in relation to a range of religio-cultural developments rather than solely in elation to early modern gender norms." (2