Women As Mothers In Pre Industrial England

Author : Valerie Fildes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136211268
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England written by Valerie Fildes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose work would not normally appear in one volume. Key aspects of motherhood in pre-industrial society are discussed, including women’s concepts of maternity, the experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and wet nursing, the fostering and disciplining of children, and child abandonment and neglect. This unique book provides a comprehensive introductory overview of its subject, with emphasis on women’s experiences and motives.

Author : Valerie Fildes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203104255
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England written by Valerie Fildes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719062865
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France written by Susan Broomhall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text combines detailed research with a clear presentation of the existing literature of women's medical work, making it useful to students of gender and medical history.

Author : Lindsey Charles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203104255
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Work in Pre-industrial England written by Lindsey Charles and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys women and work in English society before its transition to industrial capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The time span of the book from 1300 to 1800 allows comparison of women' s work patterns across various phases of economic and social organisation. It was originally published in 1985. Several important themes are highlighted throughout the individual contributions in the book. The most significant is the association between home and work. Not only was trade and manufacture in ...

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046520
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Women's History written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521778220
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe written by Merry E. Wiesner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new textbook, designed for students in all disciplines seeking an introduction to the very latest research on all aspects of women's lives in Europe from 1500 to 1750, and on the development of the notions of masculinity and femininity. The coverage is geographically broad, ranging from Spain to Scandinavia, and from Russia to Ireland, and the topics investigated include the female life-cycle, literacy, women's economic role, sexuality, artistic creations, female piety - and witchcraft - and the relationship between gender and power. To aid students each chapter contains extensive notes on further reading (but few footnotes), and the approach throughout is designed to render the subject in as accessible and stimulating manner as possible. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe is suitable for usage on numerous courses in women's history, early modern European history, and comparative history.

Author : Sheila Kitzinger
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780394506517
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women as Mothers written by Sheila Kitzinger and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1978 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading social anthropologist examines what being a mother means to a woman as a person , using examples from societies all over the world, and concludes that a great deal of what we call “maternal instinct” is culturally imposed and that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of mothering. -- Publisher description.

Author : Susan E. James
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113478094X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603 written by Susan E. James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women’s private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care, create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control, catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a woman’s understanding of her own reality and the context that formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th century and reveals the seminal role women played in its development.

Author : Margaret H. Preston
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651961
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Gender and Medicine in Ireland written by Margaret H. Preston and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine the intersections between gender, medicine, and conventional economic, political, and social histories in Ireland between 1700 and 1950. Gathering many of the top voices in Irish studies and the history of medicine, the editors cover a range of topics including midwifery, mental health, alcoholism, and infant mortality. Composed of thirteen chapters, the volume includes James Kelly’s original analyses of eighteenth-century dental practice and midwifery, placing the Irish experience in an international context. Greta Jones, in an exploration of a disease that affected thousands in Ireland, explains the reasons for higher tuberculosis mortality among women. Several essays call attention to the attempted containment of disease, exploring the role of asylums and the gendered attitudes toward insanity and reform. Contributors highlight the often neglected impact of nurses and midwives, occupations traditionally dominated by women. Presenting a social history of Irish medicine, the disparate essays are united by several common themes: the inherent danger of life in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland, the specific brutality of women’s lives at the time, and the heroics of several enlightened figures.

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136962530
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Companion is an invaluable guide to one of the most colourful periods in history. Covering everything from the Reformation, controversies over the succession and the prayer book to literature, the family and education, this highly accessible reference tool contains commentary on the key events in the reigns of the five Tudor monarchs from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. Opening with a general introduction, it includes a wealth of chronologies, biographies, statistics, and maps, as well as a glossary and a guide to the key works in the field. Topics covered include: The establishment of the Tudor dynasty; monarchs and their consorts; rebellions against the Tudors The legal system- central and ecclesiastical courts Government- central and local; the Monarchy and Parliament The Church – structure and changes throughout this tumultuous period Ireland- timeline of key events Population- numbers and distribution The World of Learning- education; literature; religion The key debates in the field. This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the Tudor Age.