Women In Service In Early Modern England

Author : Sara Heller Mendelson
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( 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 : Jeannie Dalporto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781351142922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Service in Early Modern England written by Jeannie Dalporto and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If one were to judge by the sheer number of tracts and sermons addressed to or dealing with servants in early modern England, one might conclude that servants were one of the most widely-discussed subjects among clergy, economists and other writers. The 'servant question' as it would come to be termed in the nineteenth century, was a main source of cultural anxiety throughout the early modern period. From the wealth of textual material about female servants, Jeannie Dalporto has chosen four representative texts for inclusion in this volume. They have been chosen to illustrate how books addressed to female servants evolved and to show that women in service and the ordering of the household were integral to the way labour and gender structured early modern socio-economic ideals. Of the four texts reproduced here, two are manuals explaining the duties of female servants, while two are critical, in some respects, of such books addressed to servants.."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paula Humfrey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754661559
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London written by Paula Humfrey and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. This volume exposes the contractual underpinnings of domestic service, suggesting female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. The depositions in this volume show that service was a prototypical form of female wage labour rather than a pre-marital life phase. Voices of the non-literate in this volume are clear and distinct as they present their working and personal circumstances.

Author : Jeannie Dalporto
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Service in Early Modern England written by Jeannie Dalporto and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the wealth of textual material about female servants, Jeannie Dalporto has chosen four representative texts for inclusion in this volume. They have been chosen to illustrate how books addressed to female servants evolved and to show that women in service and the ordering of the household were integral to the way labour and gender structured early modern socio-economic ideals. Of the four texts reproduced here, two are manuals explaining the duties of female servants, while two are critical, in some respects, of such books addressed to servants.

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 : Jennifer Kermode
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138997509
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England written by Jennifer Kermode and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802087577
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317886305
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but also upon the partnership between men and women. It also looks at the varied roles – cultural, religious and educational – that women played both inside and outside marriage during the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners, patrons, matchmakers, investors and network builders.

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 : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134785585
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Property written by Amy Louise Erickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.