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Never Married - Singlewomen in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Never Married - Singlewomen in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England investigates a
paradox in the history of early modern England: although one third
of adult women were never married, these women have remained
largely absent from historical scholarship. Amy Froide reintroduces
us to the category of difference called marital status and to the
significant ways it shaped the life experiences of early modern
women. By de-centring marriage as the norm in social, economic, and
cultural terms, her book critically refines our current
understanding of people's lives in the past and adds to a recent
line of scholarship that questions just how common "traditional"
families really were.
This book is both a social-economic study of singlewomen and a
cultural study of the meanings of singleness in early modern
England. It focuses on never-married women in England's provincial
towns, and on singlewomen from a broad social spectrum. Covering
the entire early modern era, it reveals that this was a time of
transition in the history of never-married women. During the
sixteenth century life-long singlewomen were largely absent from
popular culture, but by the eighteenth century they had become a
central concern of English society.
As the first book of original research to focus on singlewomen on
the period, it also illuminates other areas of early modern
history. Froide reveals the importance of kinship in the past to
women without husbands and children, as well as to widows,
widowers, single men, and orphans. Examining the contributions of
working and propertied singlewomen, she is able to illustrate the
importance of gender and marital status to urban economies and to
notions of urban citizenship in the earlymodern era. Tracing the
origins of the spinster and old maid stereotypes she reveals how
singlewomen were marginalized as first the victims and then the
villains of Protestant English society.
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