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Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England.
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This volume presents a collection of source materials on women's lives in 16th and 17th century England. The book introduces a diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, from Deborah Brackley, a poor Devon servant, to Katharine Whitstone, Oliver Cromwell's sister, and Queen Anne. Drawing on archival materials, the text explores the everyday lives of ordinary early modern women, including their: experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood; beliefs and spirituality; political activities; relationships; and mental worlds. In a time when few women could write, the book seeks to reveal the multitude of ways in which their voices and experiences leave traces in the written record, and deepen and challenge our understanding of women's lives in the past.
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• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Historical Study of Women: England 1500-1700 Intellectual Foundations Querelle des Femmes Femininity: Prescription, Rhetoric and Context Law and Private Life Politics and Authority in the Public Sphere Religion and Civil War Education and Women's Writing Conclusion: Femininity Transformed Index.
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• 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.
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"The Historical Study of Women: England 1500-1700" is a richly detailed survey of the history of early-modern women. Covering topics such as ideas about women, law and private life, women and religion, women's secular and political writing and women and the English Civil War, Amanda Capern demonstrates the ways in which women themselves were responsible for rescuing their sex from a negative construction of femininity. This book treats women's history as inherently political and is concerned as much with the intellectual as the social place of women in early-modern society.
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• 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.
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This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text 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 1500-1800 was published in 1977. The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area. This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.
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• Marital fertility and lactation, 1570-1720 / Dorothy McLaren
• The remarrying widow / Barbara J. Todd
• Women and the urban economy / Mary Prior
• Reviled and crucified marriages / Mary Prior
• Recusant women, 1560-1640 / Marie B. Rowlands
• Stuart women's diaries and occasional memoirs / Sara Heller Mendelson
• Women's published writings, 1600-1700 / Richard Bell and Patricia Crawford.

Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widowed? An expert on the period, Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows. Consistently interesting, funny, touching and thought-provoking to read: a fresh angle of vision has given her a fresh view of the private life of the seventeenth century, and she conveys it with skill.' Spectator A work of great technical assurance...she writes with a consistent warmth, wit, modesty, conviction on a subject which will be a revelation to almost anyone' The Times A distinguished and graceful book, packed with interesting information' Observer.
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New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement from its inception to its establishment as a transatlantic religious body. This authoritative volume, the first collection to focus entirely on the contributions of women, is a landmark study of their distinctive religious and gendered identities. The chapters connect three richly woven threads of Quaker women's lives-Revolutions, Disruptions and Networks-by tying gendered experience to ruptures in religion across this radical, volatile period of history.
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• Preface, acknowledgements, abbreviations, glossary, list of illustrations-- Introduction--
• 1. Contexts:- Medical theories-- Religious teachings-- The law and its administration-- Citizenship-- Popular notions-- Stereotypes-- Misogyny and patriarchy--
• 2. Life Stages:- 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-- The indigent and destitute--
• 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--
• 7. Politics:- Female monarchs-- Aristocratic women: Queens consort and courtiers-- Popular politics before 1640-- Women and revolution, 1640-1660-- Women in political movements, 1660-1720-- Conclusion-- Epilogue-- Select bibliography.
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This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities, and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women. It will become the standard text on the subject.
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• Preface by the General Editors-- Introductory note-- The Examination and Confession of certaine Wytches at Chensforde (1566)-- A Detection of damnable driftes, practised by three Witches arraigned at Chelmisforde (1579)-- W.W., A True and just Recorde of the Information, Examination and Confession (1582)-- G.B., A Most Wicked worke of a wretched Witch (1592)-- A. Ri.?, James Balmford?, 'A Report Contayning a brief Narration', pp. 92 - 103 in The Triall of Maist. Dorrell (1600)-- Witches Apprehended, Examined and Executed (1613)-- Damnable Practises Of three Lincoln-shire Witches (1619)-- Henry Goodcole, The Wonderfull Discoverie of Elizabeth Sawyer a Witch (1621)-- A Most Certain, Strange, and true Discovery of a Witch (1643)-- The Examination, Confession, Triall and Execution, Of Joane Williford, Joan Cariden, and Jane Hott (1645)-- Mary Moore, Wonderfull News from the North (1650)-- Francis Bragge, Witchcraft Farther Display'd (1712).
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The works selected for this volume are taken from topical literature representing the prosecution of English women for witchcraft between 1566 and 1712. The stories are unique, full of questions, anomalies and confusing details and they appeared in large enough numbers to show that they were fascinating to a public that included both the literate and those who could listen to others read. The texts here were chosen to represent all the ways in which women's activities as witches were presented in 'popular' literature rather than texts aimed at a more leisured and literate readership.
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• Introduction
• 1. Structures of Patriarchy
• 2. Daughters: Wives in the Making
• 3. The Arrangment of Marriage
• 4. Wives: Parnership and Patriarchy
• 5. Single Women and Compulsory Marriage
• 6. Motherhood: Bearing and Promoting the Next Generation
• 7. Widows: Women of Property and Custodians of the Family's Future
• 8. Beyond the Household: Family and Friends, Patronage and Power
• 9. Their Brilliant Careers: Aristocratic Women at the Yorkist and Early Tudor Court
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography.
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English Aristocratic Women combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England. The first book on the subject based on extensive archival research, it examines the apparent contradiction between the patriarchal institutions that shaped women's lives and the wide range of their activities, control of resources, and power over themselves and members of their families. It demonstrates that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and wideows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as the careers of their husbands. They managed their families' property and households; arranged the marriages and careers of their children; created, sustained, and exploited the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels and in the power of individual families; and, finally, managed the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlive their husbands. For women from the inner circle of court families, careers at court expanded and supported these roles. As in all careers, aristocratic women gained prestige, authority, power, and financial rewards for their activities. Recognising the full significance of aristocratic women's careers revises our understanding of Yorkist and early Tudor politics. In addition, the centrality of their roles means that reconstructing their activities creates a vivid picture of every aspect of aristocratic domestic, familial, economic, and political life.
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Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and widows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as their husband's careers. Women, Harris demonstrates, were trained from an early age to manage their families' property and households; arrange the marriages and careers of their children; create, sustain, and exploit the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels; and, finally, manage the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlived their husbands. English Aristocratic Women unveils the lives of noblewomen whose historical influence has previously been dismissed, as well as those who became favourites at the court of Henry VIII. Through extensive archival research of documents belonging to more than twelve hundred families, Harris paints a collective portrait of upper-class women of this period. By recognising the full significance of the aristocratic women's careers, this book reinterprets the politics and gender relations of early modern England. Barbara J. Harris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous works include Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521.
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• Introduction
• 1. Structures of Patriarchy
• 2. Daughters: Wives in the Making
• 3. The Arrangment of Marriage
• 4. Wives: Parnership and Patriarchy
• 5. Single Women and Compulsory Marriage
• 6. Motherhood: Bearing and Promoting the Next Generation
• 7. Widows: Women of Property and Custodians of the Family's Future
• 8. Beyond the Household: Family and Friends, Patronage and Power
• 9. Their Brilliant Careers: Aristocratic Women at the Yorkist and Early Tudor Court
• Conclusion
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography.
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English Aristocratic Women combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England. The first book on the subject based on extensive archival research, it examines the apparent contradiction between the patriarchal institutions that shaped women's lives and the wide range of their activities, control of resources, and power over themselves and members of their families. It demonstrates that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and wideows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as the careers of their husbands. They managed their families' property and households; arranged the marriages and careers of their children; created, sustained, and exploited the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels and in the power of individual families; and, finally, managed the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlive their husbands. For women from the inner circle of court families, careers at court expanded and supported these roles. As in all careers, aristocratic women gained prestige, authority, power, and financial rewards for their activities. Recognising the full significance of aristocratic women's careers revises our understanding of Yorkist and early Tudor politics. In addition, the centrality of their roles means that reconstructing their activities creates a vivid picture of every aspect of aristocratic domestic, familial, economic, and political life.
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Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic wives, mothers, and widows constituted careers for women that had as much public and political significance and were as crucial for the survival and prosperity of their families and class as their husband's careers. Women, Harris demonstrates, were trained from an early age to manage their families' property and households; arrange the marriages and careers of their children; create, sustain, and exploit the client-patron relationships that were an essential element in politics at the regional and national levels; and, finally, manage the transmission and distribution of property from one generation to another, since most wives outlived their husbands. English Aristocratic Women unveils the lives of noblewomen whose historical influence has previously been dismissed, as well as those who became favourites at the court of Henry VIII. Through extensive archival research of documents belonging to more than twelve hundred families, Harris paints a collective portrait of upper-class women of this period. By recognising the full significance of the aristocratic women's careers, this book reinterprets the politics and gender relations of early modern England. Barbara J. Harris is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous works include Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1478-1521.
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• 1. The construction and experience of maternity in seventeenth-century England Patricia Crawford
• 2. Embarking on a rough passage: the experience of pregnancy in early modern society Linda A. Pollock
• 3. The ceremony of childbirth and its interpretation Adrian Wilson
• 4. Puritan attitudes toward childhood discipline 1560-1634
• 5. Wet nursing and child care in Aldenham, Hertfordhire 1595-1726: some evidence on the circumstances and effects of seventeenth century child rearing practices Fiona Newell
• 6. Maternal feelings re-assessed: child abandonment and neglect in London and Westminster 1550-1800 Valerie Fildes
• 7. Conjugal love and the flight from marriage: poetry as a source for the history of women and the family Mary Prior Bibliography Index.
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Drawing together contributors from a range of disciplines, this work provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the subject, using an impressive array of evidence. This book should be of interest to advanced students in history of medicine, social history and women's studies.
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