Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700

✍ Scribed by Cristina Malcolmson, Mihoko Suzuki

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes --the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England, then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts, its effects on women’s writing and the developing discourse on gender, and concludes by examining the ramifications of the debate during the Civil War and Restoration. Essays focus on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
About the Contributors......Page 10
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
PART I: MANUSCRIPT AND DEBATE......Page 28
1 Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies in Early Modern England......Page 30
2 Anne Southwell and the Pamphlet Debate: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Manuscript......Page 52
PART II: PRINT, PEDAGOGY, AND THE QUESTION OF CLASS......Page 70
3 Muzzling the Competition: Rachel Speght and the Economics of Print......Page 72
4 Women’s Popular Culture? Teaching the Swetnam Controversy......Page 94
PART III: WOMEN’S SUBJECTIVITY IN MALE-AUTHORED TEXTS......Page 116
5 The Broadside Ballad and the Woman’s Voice......Page 118
6 “Weele have a Wench shall be our Poet”: Samuel Rowlands’ Gossip Pamphlets......Page 136
PART IV: GENERIC DEPARTURES: FIGURING THE MATERNAL BODY, CONSTRUCTING FEMALE CULTURE......Page 154
7 The Mat(t)er of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi......Page 156
8 “Hens should be served first”: Prioritizing Maternal Production in the Early Modern Pamphlet Debate......Page 176
9 Cross-Dressed Women and Natural Mothers: “Boundary Panic” in Hic Mulier......Page 200
PART V: POLITICS, STATE, AND NATION......Page 222
10 Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women’s Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travails of Mistris Parliament and Mris. Rump......Page 224
11 Elizabeth, Gender, and the Political Imaginary of Seventeenth-Century England......Page 246
B......Page 270
C......Page 271
E......Page 272
H......Page 273
K......Page 274
M......Page 275
P......Page 276
R......Page 277
S......Page 278
W......Page 279
Z......Page 280

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;