Household politics [[electronic resource] ] : conflict in early modern England / / Don Herzog

• Autore: Herzog Don <1956->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.85
• Soggetto topico: Households - England - History; Man-woman relationships - England - History; Misogyny - England - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. A Tale of Two Poems -- CHAPTER 2. Husbands and Wives, Gender and Genre -- CHAPTER 3. Public Man, Private Woman? -- CHAPTER 4. Conflict -- CHAPTER 5. The Trouble With Servants -- Conclusion -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather-not that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Indeed many held that a man had to be an idiot or a buffoon to try to act on their hoary "wisdom." Households didn't bask serenely in naturalized or essentialized patriarchy. Instead, husbands, wives, and servants struggled endlessly over authority. Nor did some insidiously gendered public/private distinction make the political subordination of women invisible. Conflict, Herzog argues, doesn't corrode social order: it's what social order usually consists in. He uses the argument to impeach conservatives and their radical critics for sharing confused alternatives. The social world Herzog brings vibrantly alive is much richer-and much pricklier-than many imagine.
• Titolo autorizzato: Household politics
• ISBN: 1-299-48345-3; 0-300-19517-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779659003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II