Women Beauty And Power In Early Modern England

Author : Edith Snook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230302238
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England written by Edith Snook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Author : Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367728
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700 written by Jacqueline Eales and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the historiography, an assessment of the major debates, and information about the varied sources available for women's history in this period. Arranged around familiar themes - the family, work, religion, education - the book presents a comprehensive survey of the social, economic and political position of women in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Author : Sara Heller Mendelson
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 written by Sara Heller Mendelson and published by Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813913513
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany written by Joy Wiltenburg and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the lowest levels of early modern popular street literature (ballads, broadsides, song pamphlets, and chapbooks) to shed light on differences between German and English attitudes toward women and on the ways in which those attitudes intertwined with wider social and cultural conceptions.

Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803229682
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England written by Carole Levin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the ?normal? male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituents? perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. The contributors consider historical queens as well as fictional, mythic, and biblical queens and how they were represented in medieval and early modern England. They also give modern readers a glimpse into the early modern worldview, particularly regarding order, hierarchy, rulership, property, biology, and the relationship between the sexes. Considering topics as diverse as how Queen Elizabeth?s unmarried status affected the perception of her as a just and merciful queen to a reevaluation of ?good Queen Anne? as more than just an obese, conventional monarch, this volume encourages readers to reexamine previously held assumptions about the role of female monarchs in early modern history.

Author : Sarah Bendall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350164135
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Femininity written by Sarah Bendall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century. With a nuanced approach that incorporates a stunning array of visual and written sources and drawing on transdisciplinary methodologies, Shaping Femininity explores the relationship between material culture and femininity by examining the lives of a wide range of women, from queens to courtiers, farmer's wives and servants, uncovering their lost voices and experiences. It reorients discussions about female foundation garments in English and wider European history, arguing that these objects of material culture began to shape and define changing notions of the feminine bodily ideal, social status, sexuality and modesty in the early modern period, influencing enduring Western notions of femininity. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, Shaping Femininity is the first large-scale exploration of the materiality, production, consumption and meanings of women's foundation garments in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. It offers a fascinating insight into dress and fashion in the early modern period, and offers much of value to all those interested in the history of early modern women and gender, material culture and consumption, and the history of the body, as well as curators and reconstructors.

Author : Farah Karim-Cooper
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748677097
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama written by Farah Karim-Cooper and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists reflect and engage with the early modern discourse of cosmetics.

Author : Kim F. Hall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725459
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things of Darkness written by Kim F. Hall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England's expansion into realms of difference and otherness—through exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged. How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville's Travels to Leo Africanus's History and Description of Africa; lyric poetry and plays, from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest to Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness; works by Emilia Lanyer, Philip Sidney, John Webster, and Lady Mary Wroth; and the visual and decorative arts. Concentrating on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hall shows how race, sexuality, economics, and nationalism contributed to the formation of a modern ( white, male) identity in English culture. The volume includes a useful appendix of not readily accessible Renaissance poems on blackness.

Author : Martine van Elk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319332228
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Women's Writing written by Martine van Elk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female literacy, along with female artistic and literary expressions in the form of painting, engraving, embroidery, print, drama, poetry, and prose, to offer a rich account of women’s contributions to debates on issues that mattered most to them.

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.