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Informationen zum Autor Laura Gowing is Reader in Early Modern British History at King’s College, London. Her previous works include Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (1996) and Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (2003). Klappentext Laura Gowing provides unique insight into gender relations in a time of flux! from the women who tried to vote in Ipswich in 1640! to 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 introduction gives readers both the evidence and the tools to reconstruct the hidden histories of early England. Inhaltsverzeichnis Publisher's acknowledgements. Chronology. Who’s Who. Glossary. PART 1 ANALYSIS. Introduction: Gender relations. 1 Bodies and minds. 2 Patriarchal households. 3 Communities. 4 Polity. Conclusion: Assessment. PART 2 DOCUMENTS. 1 Genesis 2:18–25. 2 Jane Anger. 3 Levinus Lemnius. 4 Jane Sharp. 5 Archbishop Laud’s dream. 6 Katherine Austen. 7 Frank North. 8 Jane Martindale. 9 James I and Robert Carr. 10 Mrs Jane Ratcliffe. 11 Mawdlin Gawen. 12 Hic Mulier. 13 A joke. 14 Edward Lacy and Elizabeth Inkberrow. 15 Leonard Wheatcroft. 16 Elizabeth Browne. 17 The Country Justice. 18 James I and George Villiers. 19 Leo Africanus. 20 Sarah Jinner. 21 Samuel Pepys. 22 Aristotle’s Masterpiece. 23 The eagle stone. 24 Ralph Josselin. 25 Isabella Twysden. 26 Jane Minors. 27 Bathsua Makin. 28 An Act for the Advancement of True Religion and for the Abolishment of the Contrary, 1543. 29 1 Timothy 2:9–15. 30 Rose Hickman. 31 Alice Driver. 32 Alice Thornton. 33 The Infanticide Act. 34 Dod and Cleaver on marriage. 35 Homily of the state of matrimony. 36 Dod and Cleaver on servants. 37 William Gouge. 38 Maria Thynne. 39 Elizabeth Freke’s remembrances. 40 Anne and James Young. 41 The Weavers’ Guild. 42 The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights. 43 Treatise of Testaments. 44 Edward Barlow. 45 The Statute of Artificers. 46 Searchers of the dead. 47 Norwich census of the poor. 48 Punishing bastard getters. 49 Elizabeth Bromley vs. Edith Griffyn. 50 Dod and Cleaver on honesty. 51 Antony Ratcliff. 52 William Stout. 53 Nehemiah Wallington. 54 Nicholas Marden and friends. 55 Mercurius Democritus. 56 Sir Thomas Smith. 57 Lucy Hutchinson. 58 Reinforcing Queenly Power. 59 Reasons for crowning the Prince and Princess of Orange jointly. 60 Edward Coke on elections. 61 The election at Ipswich 1640. 62 Lambard on the assembly of women. 63 Alice Baine and Dorothy Dawson. 64 John Peatch. 65 Sarah Walker. 66 Brilliana Harley to her husband. 67 1 Corinthians 1:27–29. 68 Abiezer Coppe. 69 Petition of the gentlewomen and tradesmen’s wives. 70 The parliament scout. 71 A parliament of women. Guide to further reading. References. Index. ...
