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Item Details
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MEANINGS OF MANHOOD IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
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| By: |
Alexandra Shepard |
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Paperback |
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£40.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019929934X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199299348 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 July, 2006 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Social History |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
This path-breaking study explores the varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Alexandra Shepard shows how, while males were the principal beneficiaries, both men and women opposed and undermined the status quo. |
| Synopsis: |
This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women. Patriarchal concepts of manhood existed in tension both with anti-patriarchal forms of resistance and with alternative codes of manhood which were sometimes primarily defined independently of patriarchal imperatives. As a result the differences within each sex, as well as between them, were intrinsic to the practice of patriarchy and the social distribution of its dividends in early modern England. |
| Illustrations: |
2 in-text half-tones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for work on the social, |
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Non-returnable |
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