Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 July 2006
- ISBN 9780199299348
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 215x137x16 mm
- Weight 424 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 in-text half-tones 0
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Short 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.
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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.
Review from previous edition This is a rich and subtle analysis and adds considerably to the sophistication of our understanding of social relations and social change in the early modern period.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Modelling Manhood
The Constant Age
The Imagined Body of 'Man's Estate'
Models of Manhood
II. The Social Practice of Manhood
Youthful Excess and Fraternal Bonding
The Violence of Manhood
Respectability, Sex, and Status
Credit, Provision, and Worth
The 'Ancienter Sort'
Conclusion: Manhood, Patriarchy, and Gender in Early Modern England
Bibliography
Index
