Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England: In Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780582405134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 264 str.

Patricia Crawford

Opis

This collection of essays examines the nature of the family in the early modern period. The book 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 1500-18002 was published in 1977.

Spis treści

1. Attitudes to menstruation in seventeenth-century England.  2. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500–1750.  3. The construction and experience of maternity in seventeenth-century England.  4. Blood and paternity.  5. ‘The sucking child’: Adult attitudes to child care in the first year of life in seventeenth-century England.  6. Katharine and Philip Henry and their children: A case study in family ideology.  7. Sibling relationships.

O autorze

Patricia Crawford is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Women and Religion in England 1500-1720 (1993), Women in Early Modern England (with Sara Mendelson)(1998) and Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England: A Sourcebook (with Laura Gowing)(1999).