Women S Worlds In Seventeenth Century England

Author : Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000158861

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Women's Worlds in Seventeenth Century England by Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing Pdf

Women's Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on women's lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, from Deborah Brackley, a poor Devon servant, to Katharine Whitstone, Oliver Cromwell's sister, and Queen Anne. Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, Women's Worlds explores the everyday lives of ordinary early modern women, including their: * experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood * beliefs and spirituality * political activities * relationships * mental worlds In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices and experiences leave traces in the written record, and deepens and challenges our understanding of womens lives in the past.

Author : Patricia Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415156386

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Women's Worlds in England, 1580-1720 ; a Sourcebook by Patricia Crawford Pdf

Author : Laura Gowing,Lecturer in Historical Studies Laura Gowing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300207956

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Common Bodies - Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England by Laura Gowing,Lecturer in Historical Studies Laura Gowing Pdf

This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century popular understandings of sex and reproduction. This history of the female body is at once intimate and wide-ranging, with sometimes startling insights into how early modern women maintained, or forfeited, control over their own bodies. Laura Gowing explores the ways social and economic pressures of daily life shaped the lived experiences of bodies: the cost of having a child, the vulnerability of being a servant, the difficulty of prosecuting rape, the social ambiguities of widowhood. She explains how the female body was governed most of all by other women - wives and midwives. Gowing casts new light on beliefs and practices concerning women's bodies of the time and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender. Laura Gowing is lecturer in history at King's College, London. She is the author of 'Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London' (1996), and, with Patricia Crawford, 'Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England' (1999). She is an editor of 'History Workshop Journal'.

Author : Patricia Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317876861

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Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England by Patricia Crawford Pdf

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800 was published in 1977. The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area. This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000036897282

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The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser Pdf

"An almost encyclopedic chronicle of women in 17th century England...wives, warriors, heiresses, preachers... alive with anecdote after anecdote." - New York Times Book Review

Author : Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135367725

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Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700 by Jacqueline Eales Pdf

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 : Effie Botonaki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000095859652

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Seventeenth-century English Women's Autobiographical Writings by Effie Botonaki Pdf

The early modern period saw the emergence and proliferation of diaries and autobiographies written by both men and women. Although autobiographical texts have been written before that time, the late sixteenth and especially the seventeenth centuries was the first time that so many diaries and autobiographies were produced.

Author : Lita-Rose Betcherman
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443402101

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Court Lady And Country Wife by Lita-Rose Betcherman Pdf

Lucy Percy was the courtly beauty—a charming lady whose considerable talents in the ballrooms, bedrooms and anterooms of the court of Charles I were, in the end, not enough to keep her from the Tower of London. Lucy’s sister Dorothy was the country wife—mother of 12 children, a domineering and politically savvy woman whose unaspiring husband’s eventual rebellion caused a public scandal. Together the Countess of Carlisle and the Countess of Leicester were at the centre of power during one of Britain’s most tumultuous periods. This richly detailed, intriguing story of two exceptional sisters is a must-read for fans of Charlotte Gray, Sandra Gulland and Jane Dunn.

Author : Merril D. Smith
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077116609

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Women's Roles in Seventeenth-Century America by Merril D. Smith Pdf

"Provides an overview of American women's lives in the seventeenth century. Covers topics such as 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"--Del editor.

Author : Patricia M. Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1315838435

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Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England by Patricia M. Crawford Pdf

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X030252504

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Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies by Rosemary O'Day Pdf

From culture to childbirth, money to marriage and wooing to widowhood, Rosemary O'Day introduces us to the lives of women in early modern Britain and the North American colonies. Dispelling the myth that women during this period were weak characters dominated by husbands and fathers, O'Day reveals these women to be important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural lives of their societies who exercised considerable influence on the world around them. Strong women, she argues, were not the exception but the norm at this time and in many, even most, cases their menfolk valued and colluded in their strength. These women did not exist in a vacuum. In examining the differing lives of married women in the old and new worlds O'Day challenges the assumption that women of the North American colonies had more agency than those in Britain. She demonstrates that gender is indeed a social construct and that different societies will construct it differently. However, far from leading us into the realms of abstract speculation, O'Day focuses on the real lives of real women, exploring how far their experience was determined by their family roles and to what extent they existed as individuals, expanding their own horizonsand those of future women.

Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780220666

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The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser Pdf

Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England. Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.

Author : John Styles,Amanda Vickery
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122855310

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Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 by John Styles,Amanda Vickery Pdf

Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113210608

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Journal of Women's History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lita-Rose Betcherman
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0060762896

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Court Lady and Country Wife by Lita-Rose Betcherman Pdf

Born during the reign of Elizabeth I, Lucy and Dorothy Percy came to prominence at the court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess of Carlisle, dominated the royal scene. Her beauty was immortalized in magnificent Van Dyck portraits, her political skills attracted many famous lovers, and her talent as a gossip ensured her inclusion in the queen's inner circle—until civil war and its machinations led to her imprisonment in the Tower of London. Her sister, Dorothy, Countess of Leicester—wife of a diplomat and an ancestor of Princess Diana—managed the family estates and raised twelve surviving children. Though brilliant, with a keen eye and special purview of European politics, she had a reputation as a shrewish wife and, when her husband rebelled after thirty-five years of marriage, it caused a public scandal. Viewing a tempestuous era through the exceptional lives of Lucy and Dorothy Percy, Lita-Rose Betcherman's Court Lady and Country Wife offers a perfect window into a remarkable world.