The Historical Study of Women: England 1500-1700

ISBN-13: 9780333662687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 456 str.

Amanda Capern

Opis

Designed for undergraduate use, this book contains a general chapter on the history and theory of women's history, followed by a section on the constructions of early modern woman through Christian and scientific ideas, social prescriptions and intellectual and popular debate. A further section uses the theoretical framework of 'separate spheres' for discussion of women and work, law, politics, education, religion and writing. The conclusion addresses recent themes in early modern gender history.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Contextualising Early-Modern Women.- Woman: Intellectual Foundations.- Querelle des Femmes.- Femininity: Prescription, Rhetoric and Context.- Law and Private Life.- Politics.- Religion and Civil War.- Education and Women's Writing.- Conclusion: Femininity Transformed.- Index.

O autorze

AMANDA CAPERN is Lecturer in Women's History at the University of Hull, UK. She works on all aspects of early-modern women's history and her publications include articles on women, land and family and women writers. She co-edits Palgrave Macmillan's Gender and History series.

Blurb

The Historical Study of Women: England 1500-1700 provides a richly detailed survey of the history and historiography of early-modern women in England during the Reformation and Civil War. Covering a wide variety of key topics, the book explores the history of ideas, women's rights, law and criminality, witchcraft, queenship, courtship and marriage, family and the household, childrearing and the world of property-ownership and work. It also provides valuable insights into the development of women's writing and political participation in the period.

Capern treats women's history as inherently political and offers a new interpretative framework for understanding the history of femininity in early-modern England. Clear and comprehensive, this is significant reading for anyone interested in early-modern English history.