women, family, and neighbourhood in early modern England /
First Statement of Responsibility
Bernard Capp.
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Oxford :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (vi, 398 pages)
SERIES
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Oxford studies in social history.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Patriarchy and the World of Gossips -- Families and Gossips: The Experience of Marriage -- Maidservants and the Politics of the Household -- Women and Neighbours: Female Disputes -- Women and Neighbours: Disputes with Men -- Women as Citizens: Public and Political Life -- Recreation, Religion, and Female Culture.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Aimed at social and cultural historians, this is an exploration of how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early Modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture. It focuses on the networks of close friends ('gossips') which gave them a social identity beyond the narrowly domestic.