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Gender and Space in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Gender and Space in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the
use of physical space in early modern England. Space was not simply
a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins
elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining
the hierarchy that sustained social and gender order in sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century England. Gender had a considerable
influence on its use and organization; status and gender were
displayed physically and spatially every moment of the day, from a
person's place at table to the bed on which he orshe slept, in
places of work and recreation, in dress, gesture and modes of
address. Space was also the basis for the formation of gender
identities which were constantly contested and restructured, as
this book shows.Examining in turn domestic, social and sacred
spaces and the spatial division of labour in gender construction,
the author demonstrates how these could shift, and with them the
position and power of women. She shows that the ideological
assumption that all women are subject to all men is flawed, and
exposes the limitations of interpretations which rely on the model
and binary opposition of public/private, male/female, to describe
gender relations and theirchanges across the period, thus offering
a much more complex and picture than has hitherto been perceived.
The book will be essential reading not just for historians of the
family and of women, but for all those studying early modern social
history. AMANDA FLATHER is a lecturer in the Department of History
at the University of Essex.
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