Common Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Common Bodies write by Laura Gowing. This book was released on 2021-06-08. Common Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 about the extent to which 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 of the time concerning women’s bodies and provides an original perspective on the history of women and gender.
Gender Relations in Early Modern England
Gender Relations in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender Relations in Early Modern England write by Laura Gowing. This book was released on 2014-07-30. Gender Relations in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This concise and accessible book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. Amidst the political and religious disruptions of the Reformation and the Civil War, sexual difference and gender were matters of public debate and private contention. Laura Gowing provides unique insight into gender relations in a time of flux, through sources ranging from the women who tried to vote in Ipswich in 1640, to the dreams of Archbishop Laud and a grandmother describing the first time her grandson wore breeches. Examining gender relations in the contexts of the body, the house, the neighbourhood and the political world, this comprehensive study analyses the tides of change and the power of custom in a pre-modern world. This book offers: Previously unpublished documents by women and men from all levels of society, ranging from private letters to court cases A critical examination of a new field, reflecting original research and the most recent scholarship In-depth analysis of historical evidence, allowing the reader to reconstruct the hidden histories of women Also including a chronology, who’s who of key figures, guide to further reading and a full-colour plate section, Gender Relations in Early Modern England is ideal for students and interested readers at all levels, providing a diverse range of primary sources and the tools to unlock them.
Ingenious Trade
Ingenious Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ingenious Trade write by Laura Gowing. This book was released on 2021-12-16. Ingenious Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the stories of girls making their way as apprentices in 17th-century London, through arguments, thefts, profits, and paperwork.
Fashioning Adultery
Fashioning Adultery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashioning Adultery write by David M. Turner. This book was released on 2002-08-15. Fashioning Adultery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital litigation - it documents a growing diversity in perceptions of marital infidelity in this period, against the backdrop of an explosion in print culture and a decline in the judicial regulation of sexual immorality. In general terms the book charts and explains a gradual transformation of ideas about extra-marital sex, whereby the powerfully established religious argument that adultery was universally a sin became increasingly open to challenge. The book charts significant developments in the idiom in which sexually transgressive behaviour was discussed, showing how evolving ideas of civility and social refinement and new thinking about gender difference influenced assessments of immoral behaviour.
Seventeenth-Century Mother’s Advice Books
Seventeenth-Century Mother’s Advice Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seventeenth-Century Mother’s Advice Books write by M. Urban. This book was released on 2006-02-04. Seventeenth-Century Mother’s Advice Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advice books published by women were a popular genre in Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century England and they were moral manuals with strong religious overtones. Here, Urban highlights a notable exception: Age Rectified, which counsels women to acquire a 'disposition of mind' in old age which allows them to be accepted by younger generations.
