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Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book ... More

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What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively book, based on letters, diaries, and account books of over one ... More

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WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND is a survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the 16th and 17th centuries. This fascinating and ... More

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A pioneering study of the origins of feminist thought in late seventeenth-century England.

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Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy-the social and ... More

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From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ... More

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This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the ... More

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This book offers a first-hand account of the heroic women who played an active part in the war between King and Parliament in the 17th century. The ... More

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This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it--both in penal theory and prison practice. ... More

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This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the ... More

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What else is woman but a foe to friendship ... a domestic danger.' These words, taken from a biblical commentary by St John Chrysostom, are ... More

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This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety ... More

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From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the lifecycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ... More

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Offering a welcome contrast to the usual collection of strange recipes and bizarre medical distillations often found in books on sixteenth-century ... More

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The history of women in Wales and Scotland is in a thriving infancy compared to England. This book draws on this work to examine the significance of ... More

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The history of women in Wales and Scotland is in a thriving infancy compared to England. This book draws on this work to examine the significance of ... More

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Martha Vicinus's subject is the middle-class English woman, the first of her sex who could afford to live on her own earnings 'outside heterosexual ... More

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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 ... More

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The accounts of Joyce Jeffreys offer a rare opportunity to enter the social world of the early modern spinster - her daily life, personal ... More

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Although the last few years have seen much new research in the areas of gender and women's history, this is the only book to date that collects in a ... More

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Sixteenth-century England was scarcely a paradise for anyone by modern standards. Yet despite huge obstacles, many sixteenth-century women achieved ... More

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Sim provides a fascinating look at the everyday life and responsibilities of women in the sixteenth century.

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