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Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720

Author : Sara Heller Mendelson
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 written by Sara Heller Mendelson and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women,including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities,and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women. It will become the standard text on the subject.

Women in Early Modern England

Author : Sara Heller Mendelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198208129
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern England written by Sara Heller Mendelson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life like for women living in Tudor and Stuart England? This fascinating book provides a colourful and comprehensive account of the daily experiences of these women, taken from first-hand sources such as diaries, letters, and household accounts.

Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700

Author : Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367728
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700 written by Jacqueline Eales and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the historiography, an assessment of the major debates, and information about the varied sources available for women's history in this period. Arranged around familiar themes - the family, work, religion, education - the book presents a comprehensive survey of the social, economic and political position of women in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

When Gossips Meet

Author : B. S. Capp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199273195
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book When Gossips Meet written by B. S. Capp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, marginalized, or subordinated. It focuses on the networks of close friends ('gossips') which gave them a social identity beyond the narrowly domestic, providing both companionship and practical support in disputes with husbands and with neighbours of either sex. The book also examines the micropolitics of the household, with its internal alliances and feuds, and women's agency in neighbourhood politics, exercised by shaping local public opinion, exerting pressure on parish officials, and through the role of informal female juries. If women did not openly challenge male supremacy, they could often play a significant role in shaping their own lives and the life of the local community.

Attending to Women in Early Modern England

Author : Betty Travitsky
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135190
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Attending to Women in Early Modern England written by Betty Travitsky and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains the edited proceedings from the 1990 symposium "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," which was sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the University of Maryland at College Park. Edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Adele F. Seeff in collaboration with a national committee of scholars, the book focuses on the interdisciplinary study of women in early modern England, addressing such areas of scholarly concern as what new research concepts can guide scholarship on early modern women? How were the public and private identities of these women constructed? What were the similarities between visible and invisible women in early modern England? How can - and should - studies on early modern women transform the classroom?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Women and Property

Author : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134785577
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women and Property written by Amy Louise Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.

Women and Religion in England

Author : Patricia Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136097562
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Women and Religion in England written by Patricia Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Crawford explores how the study of gender can enhance our understanding of religious history, in this study of women and their apprehensions of God in early modern England. The book has three broad themes: the role of women in the religious upheaval in the period from the Reformation to the Restoration; the significance of religion to contemporary women, focusing on the range of practices and beliefs; and the role of gender in the period. The author argues that religion in the early modern period cannot be understood without a perception of the gendered nature of its beliefs, institutions and language. Contemporary religious ideology reinforced women's inferior position, but, as the author shows, it was possible for some women to transcend these beliefs and profoundly influence history.

Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317886305
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies by : Rosemary O'Day

Download or read book Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but also upon the partnership between men and women. It also looks at the varied roles – cultural, religious and educational – that women played both inside and outside marriage during the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners, patrons, matchmakers, investors and network builders.

Reading Early Modern Women

Author : Helen Ostovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135887691
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Reading Early Modern Women written by Helen Ostovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This remarkable anthology assembles for the first time 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals an unprecedented view of the intellectual and literary lives of women in early modern England. The writings range from poetry to philosophical treatises, addressing a wide array of subjects including law, gender, education, motherhood, medicine, religion, life-writing, and the arts. Each selection is paired with a beautifully reproduced facsimile of the text's original source manuscript, allowing a glimpse into the literary past that will lead the reader to truly appreciate the care and craft with which these women writers prepared their texts. This essential anthology is a captivating guide to the legacy of early modern women's literature and its authors that must not be overlooked.

Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe

Author : Stephanie Tarbin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871633
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Stephanie Tarbin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a key challenge facing feminist scholars today, this volume explores the tensions between shared gender identity and the myriad social differences structuring women's lives. By examining historical experiences of early modern women, the authors of these essays consider the possibilities for commonalities and the forces dividing women. They analyse individual and collective identities of early modern women, tracing the web of power relations emerging from women's social interactions and contemporary understandings of femininity. Essays range from the late medieval period to the eighteenth century, study women in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Sweden, and locate women in a variety of social environments, from household, neighbourhood and parish, to city, court and nation. Despite differing local contexts, the volume highlights continuities in women's experiences and the gendering of power relations across the early modern world. Recognizing the critical power of gender to structure identities and experiences, this collection responds to the challenge of the complexity of early modern women's lives. In paying attention to the contexts in which women identified with other women, or were seen by others to identify, contributors add new depth to our understanding of early modern women's senses of exclusion and belonging.

Women & History

Author : Valerie Frith
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Women & History written by Valerie Frith and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through private letters and journals, published memoirs and reflections, trial transcripts and court depositions, Women and History illuminates the world of 17th- and 18th-century English women.

Gender Relations in Early Modern England

Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317862341
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Gender Relations in Early Modern England written by Laura Gowing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and accessible book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. Amidst the political and religious disruptions of the Reformation and the Civil War, sexual difference and gender were matters of public debate and private contention. Laura Gowing provides unique insight into gender relations in a time of flux, through sources ranging from the women who tried to vote in Ipswich in 1640, to the dreams of Archbishop Laud and a grandmother describing the first time her grandson wore breeches. Examining gender relations in the contexts of the body, the house, the neighbourhood and the political world, this comprehensive study analyses the tides of change and the power of custom in a pre-modern world. This book offers: Previously unpublished documents by women and men from all levels of society, ranging from private letters to court cases A critical examination of a new field, reflecting original research and the most recent scholarship In-depth analysis of historical evidence, allowing the reader to reconstruct the hidden histories of women Also including a chronology, who’s who of key figures, guide to further reading and a full-colour plate section, Gender Relations in Early Modern England is ideal for students and interested readers at all levels, providing a diverse range of primary sources and the tools to unlock them.

Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800

Author : Naomi Pullin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000359123
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800 by : Naomi Pullin

Download or read book Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800 written by Naomi Pullin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines how individuals and communities defined and negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion in England between 1550 and 1800. It aims to uncover how men, women, and children from a wide range of social and religious backgrounds experienced and enacted exclusion in their everyday lives. Negotiating Exclusion takes a fresh and challenging look at early modern England’s distinctive cultures of exclusion under three broad themes: exclusion and social relations; the boundaries of community; and exclusions in ritual, law, and bureaucracy. The volume shows that exclusion was a central feature of everyday life and social relationships in this period. Its chapters also offer new insights into how the history of exclusion can be usefully investigated through different sources and innovative methodologies, and in relation to the experiences of people not traditionally defined as "marginal." The book includes a comprehensive overview of the historiography of exclusion and chapters from leading scholars. This makes it an ideal introduction to exclusion for students and researchers of early modern English and European history. Due to its strong theoretical underpinnings, it will also appeal to modern historians and sociologists interested in themes of identity, inclusion, exclusion, and community.

Accounting for Oneself

Author : Alexandra Shepard
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191017442
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Accounting for Oneself written by Alexandra Shepard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social spectrum placed themselves within the social order, it pieces together the language of self-description deployed by over 13,500 witnesses in English courts when answering questions designed to assess their creditworthiness. Spanning the period between 1550 and 1728, and with a broad geographical coverage, this study explores how men and women accounted for their 'worth' and described what they did for a living at differing points in the life-cycle. A corrective to top-down, male-centric accounts of the social order penned by elite observers, the perspective from below testifies to an intricate hierarchy based on sophisticated forms of social reckoning that were articulated throughout the social scale. A culture of appraisal was central to the competitive processes whereby people judged their own and others' social positions. For the majority it was not land that was the yardstick of status but moveable property-the goods and chattels in people's possession ranging from livestock to linens, tools to trading goods, tables to tubs, clothes to cushions. Such items were repositories of wealth and the security for the credit on which the bulk of early modern exchange depended. Accounting for Oneself also sheds new light on women's relationship to property, on gendered divisions of labour, and on early modern understandings of work which were linked as much to having as to getting a living. The view from below was not unchanging, but bears witness to the profound impact of widening social inequality that opened up a chasm between the middle ranks and the labouring poor between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. As a result, not only was the social hierarchy distorted beyond recognition, from the later-seventeenth century there was also a gradual yet fundamental reworking of the criteria informing the calculus of esteem.

Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720

Author : Sara Heller Mendelson
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 written by Sara Heller Mendelson and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities, and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women. It will become the standard text on the subject.

Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London

Author : T. Reinke-Williams
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137372093
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London by : T. Reinke-Williams

Download or read book Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London written by T. Reinke-Williams and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on legal and literary sources, this work revises and expands understandings of female honesty, worth and credit by exploring how women from the middling and lower ranks of society fashioned positive identities as mothers, housewives, domestic managers, retailers and neighbours between 1550 and 1700.

Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700

Author : James Daybell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187232X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 by : James Daybell

Download or read book Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 written by James Daybell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons. It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate women excluded from formal, male-dominated state institutions. The chapters embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches: historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic and gender based. They deal with a variety of issues related to female intervention within political spheres, including women's rhetorical, persuasive and communicative skills; the production by women of a range of texts that can be termed 'political'; the politicization of marital, family and kinship networks; and female involvement in patronage and court politics. Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-700 also looks at ways in which images of female power and authority were represented within canonical texts, such as Shakespeare's plays and Milton's epic poetry. The volume extends the range of areas and texts for the study of women, gender and politics, and locates women's political, social and cultural activities within the contexts of the family, locality and wider national stage. It argues for a blurring of the boundaries between the traditional categories of the 'public' and the 'private,' the 'domestic' and the 'political'; and enhances our understanding of the ways in which women exerted political force through informal, intimate and personal, as well as more official, and formal channels of power. As a whole the book makes an important contribution to the reassessment of early modern politics from the perspective of women.