The Lawes Resolutions Of Womens Rights Or The Lawes Provision For Woemen Ed By T E

Author : T.e.
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781584775256

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The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights, Or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen by T.e. Pdf

[T. E.]. The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: Or, The Lawes Provision for Woemen. A Methodicall Collection of Such Statutes and Customes, With the Cases, Opinions, Arguments and Points of Learning in the Law, As Doe Properly Concerne Women. Together with a Compendious Table, Whereby the Chiefe Matters in This Booke Contained, May Be the More Readily Found. London: Printed by the Assignes of John More, 1632. [xiv], 404 pp. Reprint available June 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-525-4. Cloth. $125. * Reprint of the first edition. The first work devoted exclusively to women's law, this incomparable digest of laws in force at the time of the Civil War is also known as The Womens Lawyer. An anonymous work, its preface is signed T.E. Often attributed to Thomas Edgar [fl. 1615-1649], some believe the author was actually Sir John Dodderidge [1555-1628], an important legal figure during the reign of James I. Lord Campbell considers it "a learned work on the subject of marriage" (cited in Sweet & Maxwell). It also treats such diverse topics as age of consent, dower, hermaphrodites, polygamy, wooing, partition, chattels, divorce, descent, seisin, treason, felonies and rape. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I:500 (24).

Author : Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1632
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:879710605

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The lawes resolutions of womens rights; or, the lawes provision for woemen. [ed. by T.E.]. by Law Pdf

Author : J. L.
Publisher : Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; Norwood, N.J. : W. J. Johnson
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Women
ISBN : MINN:31951001109195C

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The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights by J. L. Pdf

Author : Jennifer L. Airey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781644530924

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The Politics of Rape by Jennifer L. Airey Pdf

The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence alongside political tracts, propaganda pamphlets, and circulating broadsides, this study argues that authors used dramatic representations of rape to respond to and engage with late-century upheavals in British political culture. Beginning with an examination of rape scenes in English Civil War propaganda, The Politics of Rape argues that Roundhead authors described acts of rape and atrocity to demonize their enemies, the Irish, the Catholics, and the Cavaliers. After the Restoration, propagandists and playwrights on each side of every political conflict would follow suit, altering the rhetoric of sexual violence in response to each new moment of political upheaval: The Restoration of Charles II, the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, the Glorious Revolution, and the accession of William and Mary. The study offers an intensive look at British propaganda culture, gathering together a wealth of understudied pamphlet texts, and identifying a series of stock figures that recur throughout the century: The demonic Irishman, sexually violent villain of the 1641 Irish Rebellion tracts; the debauched Cavalier, the secretly Catholic royalist rapist; the poisonous Catholic bride, the malignant consort who encourages the rapes of Protestant women; the cannibal father, the evil patriarch who rapes his daughters-in-laws before ingesting his own sons as a symbol of monarchical overreach; and the ravished monarch, the male rape victim whose sexual violation protests his political disenfranchisement. The study also traces the appearance of these figures on the British stage, examining well-known works by Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Lee, and Shadwell, alongside lesser-known plays by Orrery, Howard, Settle, Crowne, Ravenscroft, Pix, Cibber, and Brady. The Politics of Rape thus offers a new method for understanding of the geo-political implications of theatrical sexual violence. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Kirstie M. McClure
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271046929

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Feminist Interpretations of John Locke by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Kirstie M. McClure Pdf

Author : Hero Chalmers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191515170

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Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 by Hero Chalmers Pdf

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.

Author : Nancy Mohrlock Bunker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611476675

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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton by Nancy Mohrlock Bunker Pdf

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton examines the dynamics of early modern marriage-making, a time-honored practice that was evolving, often surreptitiously, from patriarchal control based on money and inheritance, to a companionate union in which love and the couple’s own agency played a role. Among early modern playwrights, the marriage plays of Shakespeare and Middleton are particularly, though not uniquely, concerned with this evolution, observing the movement towards spousal choice determined by the couple themselves. Through the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, the role of the patriarch, though often compromised, remained intact: the father or guardian negotiated the financial terms. And, in a culture that was still tied to feudal practices, land law held a primary place in the bargain. This book, while following the arc of changing marriage practices, focuses on the ways in which the oldest determination of status, land, affects marital decisions. Land is not a constant topic of conversation in the twenty-one theatrical marriages scrutinized here, but it is a persistent and omnipresent truth of family and economic life. In paired discussions of marriage plays by Shakespeare and Middleton—The Taming of the Shrew/A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, All’s Well That Ends Well/A Trick To Catch the Old One, Measure for Measure/A Mad World, My Masters, The Merchant of Venice/The Roaring Girl, and Much Ado About Nothing/No Wit, No Help Like A Woman’s—this book explores the attempts, maneuvers, intrigues, ruses, and schemes that marriageable characters deploy in order to control spousal choice and secure land. Special attention is given to patriarchal figures whose poor judgment exploits inheritance law weaknesses and to the lack of legal protection and hence the vulnerability of women—and men—who engage the system in unconventional ways. Investigation into the milieu of early modern patriarchal influence in marriage-making and the laws governing inheritance practices enables a fresh reading of Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s marriage comedies.

Author : Moira Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0253322138

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First Feminists by Moira Ferguson Pdf

" "Moira Ferguson has selected wisely from well-known and little-known figures and from fiction, polemic and poetry to illustrate the long and diverse history of feminist reflection up to and including Mary Wollstonecraft.... Good reading for scholars and a fine book for classroom use." -- Natalie Zemon Davis." -- from back cover.

Author : Abby Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317107804

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Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750 by Abby Chandler Pdf

Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recorded his policy as having ’steared as neere as we could to the course of Ingland’. Over the course of the next century the various colonial administrations all consciously measured their laws against that of England, whether their intention was imitation of or conscious opposition to, established English legal system. In order to trace the shifting and contested relationships between colonial laws and English laws, this book focuses on the prosecution of sexual misconduct. All crimes can threaten orderly society but no other crime posed quite the same long term implications as illicit sex resulting in the birth of illegitimate children who became their own social challenges. Sexual misconduct was, consequently, a major concern for early modern leaders, making it a particularly fruitful subject for studying the complex relationship between laws in England and laws in the English colonies. Political and ecclesiastical leaders create laws to coerce people to behave in a certain fashion and to convey wider messages about the societies they govern. When those same laws are broken, lawbreakers must be tried and punished by a means intended to serve as a warning to other would-be lawbreakers. In this book the two-part analysis of changing sexual misconduct laws and the resulting trial depositions highlights the ways in which ordinary New England colonists across New England both interacted with and responded to the growing Anglicization of their legal systems and makes the argument that these men and women saw themselves as taking part in a much larger process.

Author : K. J. Kesselring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192572585

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Making Murder Public by K. J. Kesselring Pdf

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the latter, and two, a significant reduction in the rates of homicides individuals perpetrated on each other. Making Murder Public explores connections between these two changes. It demonstrates the value in distinguishing between murder and manslaughter, or at least in seeing how that distinction came to matter in a period which also witnessed dramatic drops in the occurrence of homicidal violence. Focused on the 'politics of murder', Making Murder Public examines how homicide became more effectively criminalized between 1480 and 1680, with chapters devoted to coroners' inquests, appeals and private compensation, duels and private vengeance, and print and public punishment. The English had begun moving away from treating homicide as an offence subject to private settlements or vengeance long before other Europeans, at least from the twelfth century. What happened in the early modern period was, in some ways, a continuation of processes long underway, but intensified and refocused by developments from 1480 to 1680. Making Murder Public argues that homicide became fully 'public' in these years, with killings seen to violate a 'king's peace' that people increasingly conflated with or subordinated to the 'public peace' or 'public justice.'

Author : Karen Raber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351964906

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Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 by Karen Raber Pdf

Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is now one of the most anthologized works by a Renaissance woman writer. Her History of ... Edward II has provided fertile ground for questions about authorship and historical form. The essays included in this volume highlight the many evolving debates about Cary's works, from their complicated generic characteristics, to the social and political contexts they reflect, to the ways in which Cary's writing enters into dialogue with texts by male writers of her time. In its critical introduction, the volume offers a thorough analysis of where Cary criticism has been and where it might venture in the future.

Author : Hilary Fraser,R. S. White
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1875560343

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Constructing Gender by Hilary Fraser,R. S. White Pdf

Author : Sophie Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521811112

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Women on Stage in Stuart Drama by Sophie Tomlinson Pdf

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Author : Natasha Korda
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202519

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Shakespeare's Domestic Economies by Natasha Korda Pdf

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men. In the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the "keepers" of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life—objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands.

Author : Lisa McClain
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319730875

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Divided Loyalties? Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Lay Roles in the Catholic Church, 1534-1829 by Lisa McClain Pdf

This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829. Filled with richly detailed stories, such as the suppression of Mary Ward’s Institute of English Ladies, it explores how Catholics created and tested new understandings of women’s and men’s roles in family life, ritual, religious leadership, and vocation through engaging personal narratives, letters, trial records, and other rich primary sources. Using an intersectional approach, it crafts a compelling narrative of three centuries of religious and social experimentation, adaptation, and change as traditional religious and gender norms became flexible during a period of crisis. The conclusions shed new light on the Catholic Church’s long-term, ongoing process of balancing gendered and religious authority during this period while offering insights into the debates on those topics taking place worldwide today.