The Historical Study of Women England

Designed for undergraduate use, this book contains a general chapter on the history and theory of women's history, followed by a section on the constructions of early modern woman through Christian and scientific ideas, social prescriptions and intellectual and popular debate. A further section uses the theoretical framework of "separate spheres" for discussion of women and work, law, politics, education, religion and writing. The conclusion addresses recent themes in early modern gender history.

AMANDA CAPERN is Lecturer in Women's History at the University of Hull, UK

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Contextualising Early-Modern Women	p. 1
Woman: Intellectual Foundations	p. 7
Introduction	p. 7
Christian and classical ideas	p. 7
The female sex	p. 16
Sexuality, menstruation and illness	p. 19
Fertility, maternity and lactation	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 29
Querelle des Femmes	p. 31
Introduction	p. 31
Satires and the dualistic woman, 1500-1580	p. 35
Jane Anger and the Swetnam controversy, 1580-1640	p. 38
Querelle des femmes: 1640-1700	p. 50
Conclusion	p. 57
Femininity: Prescription, Rhetoric and Context	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
Prescription	p. 59
The double sexual standard	p. 63
Marriage, vocation and occupation	p. 70
Rhetoric and context	p. 81
Conclusion	p. 86
Law and Private Life	p. 88
Introduction	p. 88
The lawes resolutions of women's rights	p. 89
Courtship, marriage and divorce	p. 94
Reproduction and production	p. 107
Property	p. 121
Crime	p. 127
Witchcraft	p. 137
Conclusion	p. 145
Politics	p. 149
Introduction	p. 149
Gender and politics in the early Tudor state	p. 151
Female rule 1553-1603	p. 163
Early Stuart patriarchal political thought	p. 177
Queen's consort: Anne of Denmark and Henrietta Maria	p. 179
Queens, mistresses and coffee houses 1660-1700	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 194
Religion and Civil War	p. 196
Introduction	p. 196
Gender and reformation historiography	p. 196
Catholicism	p. 200
Protestantism and puritanism	p. 211
Godly motherhood and prophecy	p. 220
Civil war and God's providence	p. 226
Religion and gender after 1660	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 256
Education and Women's Writing	p. 259
Introduction	p. 259
Humanist women 1500-1560	p. 261
Renaissance women writers	p. 267
Margaret Cavendish and the secular writers	p. 280
Aphra Behn and the playwrights	p. 292
Mary Astell and the feminists	p. 303
Conclusion	p. 311
Conclusion: Femininity Transformed	p. 314
Notes	p. 318
Index	p. 419
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