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Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720
By Sara Mendelson, Patricia Crawford
508 pages
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- Clarendon Press
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- Oxford
- Publication year:
- 1998
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Synopsis
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 ...
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.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Preface v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Contents xi
- List of Illustrations xiii
- Abbreviations xvii
- Note Concerning Dates and Spellings xviii
- Glossary of Terms xviii
- Introduction 1
- 1 - Contexts 15
- 2 - Childhood and Adolescence 75
- 3 - Adult Life 124
- Conclusions 200
- 4 - Female Culture 202
- Conclusions 255
- 5 - The Makeshift Economy of Poor Women 256
- Title Page iii
- Preface v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Contents xi
- List of Illustrations xiii
- Abbreviations xvii
- Note Concerning Dates and Spellings xviii
- Glossary of Terms xviii
- Introduction 1
- 1 - Contexts 15
- 2 - Childhood and Adolescence 75
- 3 - Adult Life 124
- Conclusions 200
- 4 - Female Culture 202
- Conclusions 255
- 5 - The Makeshift Economy of Poor Women 256
- Conclusions 298
- 6 - Occupational Identities and Social Roles 301
- 7 - Politics 345
- Conclusions 428
- Epilogue 431
- Select Bibliography 437
- Index 467