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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780198208181
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94747540
Product Key Features
Author
Alexandra Shepard
Publication Name
Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, History
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
224mm
Item Width
145mm
Item Weight
470g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Alexandra Shepard
Series Title
Oxford Studies in Social History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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