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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keeble N Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Keeble, N. H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe--History--17th century--Sources.

Women.

Sex role--Europe--History--17th century--Sources.

Sex role.

Patriarchy--Europe--History--17th century--Sources.

Patriarchy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-134-84710-6

1-134-84711-4

1-280-32571-2

0-203-29956-6

0-203-20329-1

9780203203293

OCLC:

252787434