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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.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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).
Zusammenfassung
Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe.
Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe.
There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.
