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Never Married - Singlewomen in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New)
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Never Married - Singlewomen in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New)
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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 early modern 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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