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Gender, culture and politics in England, 1560-1640 : turning the world upside down
\"Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a groundbreaking study that provides revealing insights into the lives of men and women in early modern England. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine familiar chaotic characters from the period, such as scolds, cuckolds, witches and scandalous women, and consider the significance of the disorder they create and how they turn the ordered world around them upside down in a very specific, gendered way. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft, the book demonstrates how the idea of an upside down world, centered on gender inversion, repeatedly permeates the mental world of early modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how gender was central to understanding society, and the ways in which both unruly women and failed patriarchs were disciplined. In doing so, they give a glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern society. This is a vital study for anyone keen to know more about the importance of gender in society, culture and politics in 16th- and 17th-century England\"--Provided by publisher.
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Household Politics
Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. InHousehold Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather-not that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Indeed many held that a man had to be an idiot or a buffoon to try to act on their hoary \"wisdom.\" Households didn't bask serenely in naturalized or essentialized patriarchy. Instead, husbands, wives, and servants struggled endlessly over authority. Nor did some insidiously gendered public/private distinction make the political subordination of women invisible. Conflict, Herzog argues, doesn't corrode social order: it's what social order usually consists in. He uses the argument to impeach conservatives and their radical critics for sharing confused alternatives. The social world Herzog brings vibrantly alive is much richer-and much pricklier-than many imagine.
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When Gossips Meet
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.
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Constructing the patriarchal city : gender and the built environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s
In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women's vision challenged the men's right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city's disorder.
Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructure that included housing that would keep people inside the city, public toilets for women as well as men, housing for single, working women, and public spaces that were open and safe for all residents.
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Blood, Bodies and Families
This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800 was published in 1977.The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area.This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.
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The Edwardses of Halifax
For three-quarters of a century, the Edwards family of Halifax were among Britain’s leading bookbinders, publishers, and antiquarian booksellers. The Edwardses of Halifax is the definitive account of the family business, begun by William Edwards in Halifax, Yorkshire, and expanded to London by his sons James and Richard. James, one of the most distinguished antiquarian book collectors and booksellers in Europe, scoured the Continent for rare books during the Napoleonic Wars and served as a secret agent for his friend Earl Spencer, the First Lord of the Admiralty. His brother Richard published an edition of Edward Young’s Night Thoughts with prints designed and engraved by William Blake, the most ambitious commercial work that Blake ever undertook.
A comprehensive history of this remarkable family, complete with illustrations of the family’s most important publications, The Edwardses of Halifax will be valuable for readers interested in the buying, selling, and collecting of antiquarian books and the publishing of illustrated books in late Georgian and regency eras.
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Private needs, public space: public toilets provision in the Anglo-Atlantic patriarchal city: London, Dublin, Toronto and Chicago
As part of the reconstruction of their built environments at the beginning of the twentieth century, London, Dublin, Toronto and Chicago confronted the question of whether to provide public toilets. In comparing the arguments and decisions over this question, this article demonstrates how the male leadership of each city sought to preserve the centuries-old patriarchal tradition of separate public and private spheres and limit women's access to public spaces. It also reveals the gendered dimension of ideas and experiences of the city that underlay the rhetoric surrounding this question.
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Revisiting Ecclesiastical Adultery Cases in Eighteenth-Century England
This article explores how wives contested ecclesiastical adultery cases in eighteenth-century Doctors’ Commons, an institution that comprised the Court of Arches and London Consistory Court. Doctors’ Commons played the central role in matrimonial jurisdiction in eighteenth-century England, hearing cases from both the landed gentry and the wealthy middling sort. By examining manuscripts written by advocates and the records produced by both courts in Doctors’ Commons, this article discusses the significance of a litigation system in which defendant wives were authorized to submit counter-allegations to defend their honor. It was a system in which obtaining a separation was difficult even for husbands. This analysis also reveals how female litigants used the accusation of cruelty on the part of their husbands as a means of demonstrating their husbands’ faults and thereby obtaining a separation. This article, therefore, looks at what lawyers’ tactical instructions to their clients reveal about the power relationship between wives and husbands in the patriarchal legal system.
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The Adolescent Condition in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders
Explanations of the developing adolescent body as a site of psychosomatic conflict surfaced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as a result of altered social landscapes in developing industrial nations. Out of a \"new care and concern for older children\" among the emergent middle class arose \"the longer period of dependence that youth was now subjected to,\" and thus the very category of modern adolescence itself.3 Kent Baxter further describes the developing late nineteenth-century view of adolescence as a period of crisis in which \"the individual . . . [must] look beyond the primitive qualities of selfishness, and engag[e] in activities and emotions that promote the 'higher' species,\" illustrating a conception of adolescent growth that gained more traction in Victorian culture as the influence of evolutionary theory grew.4 In The Woodlanders, Hardy charts this alteration in the social and scientific landscape through his representation of the Melbury family, centering the conflict of the novel within the \"new care and concern for older children\" associated with the birth of adolescence in this era. Critics have discussed at length the economic dimension of George Melbury's obsessive interest in his daughter Grace's education and Grace's role as exploited bartering tool for the dubious prize of upward class mobility. [...]less has been written about adolescence itself in the novel, and, in particular, the anxiety surrounding arrested adolescent growth that Melbury's fixation on Grace's bartering potential betrays.5 The novel anticipates many of the concerns to arise in the following two decades on the...
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On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama
According to Biblical tradition, prelapsarian humans knew not pain. According to such representations, Christ's \"murder, executed by the Roman state in its desire to quell possible 'terrorist actions' against its authority in Palestine, is sanctified and consequently depoliticized,\" as Anthony Kubiak observes.\\n The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge indirectly wards offthe dangers of noticing Gyll's successes and Christ's failures: it condemns and seeks to control dramatic spectacles of pain by distinguishing between fear of pain, a temporal drive, and fear of sin, a spiritual force.
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