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MAP FORUM - 7 October 2025 Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negotiated interpersonal relationships and lineage concerns to actively contribute to their families in early modern Italy. This book argues that a network model offers a framework of analysis in which to deconstruct patriarchy as a single system of institutionalized dominance. Networks account for female agency as an interactive force that shaped the kinship ties, affective relationships, material connections, and political positions of these elite families as women constructed their own narratives and negotiated their own positions in family life. Megan Moran is an Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Her research focuses broadly on themes of family and gender in early modern Italy. She has published articles that explore the dynamics of sibling relations, motherhood, intersections of gender and fashion, and the workings of stepfamilies in sixteenth and seventeenth century Florence.