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Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720

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This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities, and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women, and is sure to become the standard text on the subject.

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"Scholars interested in early modern women in England have finally gotten their long-awaited history reference book...Crawford and Mendelson's look at women's work is illuminating because it allows us to see, in very specific ways, how women always had to work...The work these women have done is both impressive and useful and, from what I have heard from other scholars, very much appreciated."--Sixteenth Century Journal

"The first truly exhaustive study of women in England between about 1550 and 1725...The authors have created a readable, engaging, and useful text that will appeal to the educated general reader as much as it will to advanced undergraduates...Should be on every college library's purchase list."--CHOICE

"Each chapter provides an exceedingly well written, intelligent, and nuanced analysis of the Englishwoman's world...[T]he sheer breadth and sensitivity of the subject matter make this book an invaluable source...[I]t is surely essential reading for all graduates and faculty studying either English history or early modern women's history."--History

"[A]n important book that will be useful to everyone who studies women in the early modern period...[A]n ambitious work...Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 is the best single history of the subject yet written and should prove to be a classic in the field...The book is very valuable indeed and a welcome addition."--Seventeenth-Century News

"A thought-provoking study of the women of early modern England written by two proven experts in this relatively new field of modern inquiry."--Albion

About the Author

Sara H. Mendelson is Assistant Professor of the Arts and Science Program at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.Patricia Crawford works in the History Department at the University of Western Australia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (June 25, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198201249
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198201243
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1600L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 1999

I have the privilege of being a pupil of Patricia Crawford's at the University of Western Australia, so naturally I was interested in reading the product of her colloboration. For a history student this book is marvellous for an introduction into the history of our female ancestors and a welcome relief from those dry products of academia which delight in annoying and perplexing the humble reader with page long sentences, words which I suspect the author has made up and long dry recitations of 'facts'. This is an easy to read and very informative piece of work, which I would highly reccommend for all who are interested in discovering a hidden voice of early modern history - the mighty female. And just in case you're thinking my review may be laced with bias, read this book and you will see that its not.

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Nora Caron

Women and their multiple lives

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2007

I found this book well-written and well-researched. Knowing little more than the obvious knowledge that women were "less than" men during early modern times, this book helped me to see how in certain areas (medecine, politics, child-birth) women did contribute greatly to history. I feel grateful for this thorough research, and it shall certainly prove helpful for my thesis on Early Modern England.

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Informative, But Laden with Excessive Post-modern Jargon

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 1999

This book provides important insight into an insufficiently examined aspect of Tudor and Stuart history. The research is impressive, the chapter summaries most helpful. The illustrations are judiciously selected. Indeed, the book is undeniably informative and interesting.
However, I can't honestly say that this work constitutes what I would regard as a masterpiece of contemporary prose style, or even a brisk and refreshing "read". I found the feminist approach here a tad doctrinaire; perhaps this somewhat heavy-handed approach can be justified in the context of a thorough re-examination of the matter. Reservations still endure. At the risk of seeming intemperate, I call down a pox on all social- scientific newspeak. Yea, the devil seize all references to paradigms, discourses, modalities and any other such bits of post-modern scholarly vocabulary. I would be delighted if there were a moratorium on the use of such words in any academic writing for at least a generation!

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