| Description |
xvi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-466) and index. |
| 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 |
| Subject |
Women -- England -- History -- Modern period, 1600-
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Women -- England -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.
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| Added Author |
Crawford, Patricia (Patricia M.)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Mendelson, Sara Heller, 1947- Women in early modern England, 1550-1720. Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998 (OCoLC)647256570 |
| ISBN |
0198201249 |
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9780198201243 |
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