Dr. Amanda Pipkin

Faculty Research Connections Profile

Education

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2007

MA Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1999

Research Interests & Bio

Early Modern Europe; women and gender; sexuality; identity formation; cultural history; the Netherlands, Germany.

I am working on a book-length project that traces the international spread of domestic advice books in response to religious persecution, trade, and voluntary travel. It compares the content of advice to parents printed in German, Dutch, English, French, and Latin, and identifies women active within these networks of religious exchange to highlight instances in which ministers provided women with the tools to write and publish devotional texts by insisting that women engage in domestic religious practices including reading and writing devotional texts, offering religious instruction, and even leading home worship services.

Publications

• Dissenting Daughters: Reformed Women in the Dutch Republic, 1572-1725. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750, co-edited with Sarah Moran, (Leiden: Brill, 2019). Available in Open Access.
• Rape and the Republic, 1609-1725: Formulating Dutch Identity. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
• “Women’s Writing during the Dutch Revolt: the Religious Authority and Political Agenda of Cornelia and Susanna Teellinck, 1554–1625,” in Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
• “‘They were not humans, but devils in human bodies’: Depictions of Sexual Violence and Spanish Tyranny as a Means of Fostering Identity in the Dutch Republic,” Journal of Early Modern History vol. 13 (no. 4) 2009, p. 229-264.
• “Every Woman’s Fear: Stories of Rape and Dutch Identity in the Golden Age,” Tijdschrijft voor Geschiedenis vol. 122 (no. 3) 2009, p. 290-305.