Women And Petitioning In The Seventeenth Century English Revolution

Author : Amanda Whiting
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503547787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-century English Revolution written by Amanda Whiting and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the English Civil Wars and Revolution (1640-60), the affairs of Church and State came under a crucial new form of comment and critique, in the form of public petitions. Petitioning was a readily available mode of communication for women, and this study explores the ways in which petitioning in seventeenth-century England was adapted out of and differed from pre-Revolutionary modes, whilst also highlighting gendered conventions and innovations of petitioning in that period. Male petitioning in the seventeenth century did not have to negotiate the cultural assumptions about intellectual inferiority and legal incapacity that constrained women. Yet just because women did not claim separate (and modern) women's rights does not mean that they were passive, quiescent, or had no political agency. On the contrary, as this study shows, women in the Revolution could use petitioning as a powerful way to address those in power, precisely because it was done from an assumed position of weakness. The petition is not simply a text, authored by a single pen, but a series of social transactions, performed in multiple social and political settings, frequently involving people previously excluded from participation in political discussion or action. To the extent that women participated in collective petitioning, or turned their individual addresses into printed artefacts for public scrutiny, they also participated in the public sphere of political opinion and debate.

Author : Ann Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136642498
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and the English Revolution written by Ann Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the most important feminist scholar of early modern Britain in the UK, this is a fascinating and unique examination of how the experience of the civil wars in England changed both role and conception of women and men in politics, society and culture.

Author : Merril D. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087067
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Roles in Seventeenth-Century America written by Merril D. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colonial America, the lives of white immigrant, black slave, and American Indian women intersected. Economic, religious, social, and political forces all combined to induce and promote European colonization and the growth of slavery and the slave trade during this period. This volume provides the essential overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century, as the dominant European settlers established their patriarchy. Women were essential to the existence of a new patriarchal society, most importantly because they were necessary for its reproduction. In addition to their roles as wives and mothers, Colonial women took care of the house and household by cooking, preserving food, sewing, spinning, tending gardens, taking care of sick or injured members of the household, and many other tasks. Students and general readers will learn about women's roles in the family, women and the law, women and immigration, women's work, women and religion, women and war, and women and education. literature, and recreation. The narrative chapters in this volume focus on women, particularly white women, within the eastern region of the current United States, the site of the first colonies. Chapter 1 discusses women's roles within the family and household and how women's experiences in the various colonies differed. Chapter 2 considers women and the law and roles in courts and as victims of crime. Chapter 3 looks at women and immigration—those who came with families or as servants or slaves. Women's work is the subject of Chapter 4. The focus is work within the home, preparing food, sewing, taking care of children, and making household goods, or as businesswomen or midwives. Women and religion are discussed in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 examines women's role in war. Women's education is one focus of Chapter 7. Few Colonial women could read but most women did receive an education in the arts of housewifery. Chapter 7 also looks at women's contributions to literature and their leisure time. Few women were free to pursue literary endeavors, but many expressed their creativity through handiwork. A chronology, selected bibliography, and historical illustrations accompany the text.

Author : Patricia M. Crawford
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415156386
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-century England written by Patricia M. Crawford and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138766266
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Political Writings, 1610-1725 written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a variety of women's political writings from the Seventeenth Century. This collection highlights the principles inherent in female political action in its many and varied forms, from women's Civil War petitioning, to the efforts of Quaker women to reform prisons.

Author : Susan Wiseman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199205124
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy and Virtue written by Susan Wiseman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the relationship between woman and politics in 17th century England? Responding to this question, this work argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. It is a study of gender and cultural politics in the century of revolution.

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781851967926
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Political Writings, 1610-1725 written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a variety of women's political writings from the Seventeenth Century. This collection highlights the principles inherent in female political action in its many and varied forms, from women's Civil War petitioning, to the efforts of Quaker women to reform prisons.

Author : Katharine Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451960
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century written by Katharine Gillespie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the separation of Church from state, privacy, and individualism. Gillespie argues that their sermons, prophesies, and petitions illustrate the fact that these liberal theories did not originate only with such well-known male thinkers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Rather, they emerged also from a group of determined female religious dissenters who used the Bible to reassess traditional definitions of womanhood, public speech and religious and political authority. Gillespie takes the 'pamphlet literatures' of the seventeenth century as important subjects for analysis, and her study contributes to the important scholarship on the revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of the mid-seventeenth-century Civil War in England.

Author : Stevie Davies
Publisher : Women's Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unbridled Spirits written by Stevie Davies and published by Women's Press (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbridled Spirits is a vibrant and authoritative study of the women of the 17th century, women who found the means to speak out and demand change at a time when a woman could be publicly humiliated, bridled and tortured for scolding her husband.

Author : Mark Hailwood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839423
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England written by Mark Hailwood and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for public recreation in the villages and market towns of England. In the face of considerable animosity from Church and State, the patrons of alehouses, who were drawn from a wide cross section of village society, fought for and won a central place in their communities for an institution that they cherished as a vital facilitator of what they termed "good fellowship". For them, sharing a drink in the alehouse was fundamental to the formation of social bonds, to the expression of their identity, and to the definition of communities, allegiances and friendships. Bringing together social and cultural history approaches, this book draws on a wide range of source material - from legal records and diary evidence to printed drinking songs - to investigate battles over alehouse licensing and the regulation of drinking; the political views and allegiances that ordinary men and women expressed from the alebench; the meanings and values that drinking rituals and practices held for contemporaries; and the social networks and collective identities expressed through the choice of drinking companions. Focusing on an institution and a social practice at the heart of everyday life in early modern England, this book allows us to see some of the ways in which ordinary men and women responded to historical processes such as religious change and state formation, and just as importantly reveals how they shaped their own communities and collective identities. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, cultural and political worlds of the ordinary men and women of seventeenth-century England. MARK HAILWOOD is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.