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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450674803321

Titolo

The cultural identity of seventeenth-century woman : a reader / / Compiled and edited by N.H. Keeble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-84711-4

1-280-32571-2

0-203-29956-6

0-203-20329-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeebleN. H

Disciplina

305.4/094/09032

Soggetti

Women - Europe - History - 17th century

Sex role - Europe - History - 17th century

Patriarchy - Europe - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; IN THE BEGINNING: MALE AND FEMALE; BODY; SEXUALITY; MIND AND SOUL; BEAUTY; VICES; VIRTUES; MARRIAGE, ADULTERY AND DIVORCE; WIFELY DUTIES; MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; HOUSECRAFT, STATECRAFT AND PRIESTCRAFT; MIDWIFERY AND WET-NURSING; MISTRESS AND MUSE; CROSS-DRESSING; WIDOWHOOD, CELIBACY AND FEMALE FRIENDSHIP; AUTHORSHIP; 'TYRANT CUSTOM, WHY MUST WE OBEY'?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology brings together extracts from a wide variety of seventeenth-century sources to illustrate the ways in which the cultural notion of `women' was then constructed. historical circumstances of women's lives in the seventeenth century and the cultural notions of `woman' which prevailed then. What did women and men think women should be? Over 200 extracts from books, pamphlets, diaries and letters are arranged under three main headings: female nature, character and behaviour; female roles and affairs; and `feminisms.'  Each chapter is introduced by N.H. Keeble who contextualis