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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/094/09032
• Soggetto topico: Women - Europe - History - 17th century; Sex role - Europe - History - 17th century; Patriarchy - Europe - History - 17th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KeebleN. H
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The cultural identity of seventeenth-century woman
• ISBN: 1-134-84711-4; 1-280-32571-2; 0-203-29956-6; 0-203-20329-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450674803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II