Abstract
This chapter places Agnes Block within the context of seventeenthcentury gender norms and expectations. The extent to which an early modern woman could participate in the economy, exercise power and agency in a public sphere, and engage in self-fashioning depended on several factors, not the least of which related to the men in their lives. Block was not unique, nor was she necessarily a “rare star among her sex.” Like other early modern Dutch urban women with wealth, social connections, curiosity, and intellectual acumen, her gender made it more complex at times to exercise agency and become part of the socio-cultural fabric, but did not prevent her from doing so.
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