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Women in early modern England, 1550-1720

Author: Sara Heller Mendelson; Patricia Crawford
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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Mendelson, Sara Heller, 1947-
Women in early modern England, 1550-1720.
Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998
(OCoLC)647256570
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sara Heller Mendelson; Patricia Crawford
ISBN: 0198201249 9780198201243 019820812X 9780198208129
OCLC Number: 37499882
Description: xvi, 480 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Contexts. Medical understandings of woman's body ; Religious teachings ; The law and its administration ; Citizenship ; Popular notions ; Stereotypes --
2. Childhood and adolescence. Early years ; Service ; Courtship --
3. Adult life. Marriage ; Maternity ; Single women ; Widowhood ; Old age ; Death --
4. Female culture. Space ; Speech ; Material culture ; The practice of piety ; Female friendship ; Passionate friends and lesbian relationships ; Female consciousness and feminism --
5. The makeshift economy of poor women. Work and gender ; Poverty ; Making a living ; Indigence and destitution --
6. Occupational identities and social roles. Running a household ; Professional and skilled work: medical, educational, and cultural ; Crafts, trades, and multiple occupations ; Royal, civic, and institutional employment ; Public housewifery ; Changes over the period, 1550-1720 --
7. Politics. Female monarchs ; Aristocratic women: queens consort, female courtiers, and matriarchs ; Popular politics before 1640 ; Women and revolution, 1640-1660 ; Women in political movements, 1660-1720.
Responsibility: Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford.
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