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Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates
social history, politics and literary culture as part of a
ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early
modern English society. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown
examine political scandals and familiar characters-including
scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the
ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered
ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft,
the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed
patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early
modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas
were central to understanding society and politics as well as the
ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and
informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a
glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern
society. This is a vital study for anyone interested in
understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and
politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates
social history, politics and literary culture as part of a
ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early
modern English society. Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown
examine political scandals and familiar characters-including
scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the
ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered
ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft,
the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed
patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early
modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas
were central to understanding society and politics as well as the
ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and
informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a
glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern
society. This is a vital study for anyone interested in
understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and
politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.
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