Gender Sex And Subordination In England 1500 1800

Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300065312
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800 written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early modern period, men and women in England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a feature of western civilization, and this work attempts to provide a portrait of the origins and operation of the system over a long stretch of the English past.

Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076509
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sex and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fletcher's account draws from a vast range of sources - literary, medical, religious and historical - to investigate the mechanisms through which men and women interpreted and understood their social worlds. He explores the early modern view of the body, of sexual desire and appetites, and of gender difference. He looks at the nature of marital relationships, and shows how subordination was implemented and consolidated through church, school, home and community. And he exposes patriarchy's tragic consequences: smothered opportunity, crushed sexuality, and a pall across many women's lives.

Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300163964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in England written by Anthony Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on testimony from contemporary letters and diaries, this book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in England in the period between 1600 and 1914. One of the facets explored by the author is different experiences of men and boys, women and girls.

Author : Olwen H. Hufton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prospect Before Her written by Olwen H. Hufton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shawn L. Maurer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804733533
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proposing Men written by Shawn L. Maurer and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simultaneously challenging conventional male-dominated thought and revisionist modern feminism, this book argues that gendered identities can best be conceived relationally, and thus that a fuller understanding of gender roles in the eighteenth century (and by extension in our own) must include an analysis of men’s place in the discourse of domesticity. Examining the phenomenal rise of the social periodical at the end of the seventeenth century, the author theorizes the genre’s crucial contribution to the construction of a class-specific gender identity that succeeds as ideology not, as usually assumed, by separating the feminine private sphere from the masculine public one, but by delineating the private as an important locus of masculine control. Marshalling social history, political theory, economics, and sociology in an attempt to account historically for the appearance of the sentimental family—controlled by the man who is at once lover and husband, father and brother—this book forcefully questions the validity of the doctrine of separate spheres and the ascription of gender roles connected to it. The social periodical provides compelling evidence for understanding the relationship between gender construction and class values. By focusing on such topics as courtship, marriage, and parent-child relations, the genre configured the nuclear family as a locus where emotional and sexual gratification supported material gain. Periodical literature offered an ostensibly neutral forum for public debate about private issues where male editors, by instructing and reforming women, also learned to become the chaste husbands and watchful fathers of the bourgeois home. In the process of demonstrating how social periodicals constructed new forms of masculine control still very much with us today, the book also shows how, by galvanizing an important new reading class, they contributed to the rise of the novel. Periodical literature exerted a transformative effect on English society by displaying a moral and cultural authority, not to mention a readership, that novels would struggle for many decades to achieve.

Author : Elizabeth Jocelin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802046949
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mothers Legacy to Her Vnborn [i.e. Unborn] Childe [i.e. Child] written by Elizabeth Jocelin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors.

Author : Chris Shilling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198739036
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body written by Chris Shilling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction, Chris Shilling considers the social significance of the human body, and the importance of the body to individual and collective identities. He examines how bodies not only shape but are shaped by the social, cultural, and material contexts in which humans live.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199328331
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Women's History written by Susan Ware and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does American history look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this Very Short Introduction chronicles the contributions that women have made to the American experience from a multicultural perspective that emphasizes how gender shapes women's--and men's--lives.

Author : Don Herzog
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300180780
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Politics written by Don Herzog and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that husbands, wives and servants often struggled over authority in the household.

Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205987
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Women written by Heidi Brayman Hackel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women's reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women's writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership. Drawing together historians and literary scholars, the essays share a concern with local specificity and material culture. Removing women from the historically inaccurate frame of exclusively solitary, silent reading, the authors collectively return their subjects to the activities that so often coincided with reading: shopping, sewing, talking, writing, performing, and collecting. With chapters on samplers, storytelling, testimony, and translation, the volume expands notions of reading and literacy, and it insists upon a rich and varied narrative that crosses disciplinary boundaries and national borders.