Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

Author: Professor Richard Hillman

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1472410459

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Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume presents a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The contributors illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

Author: Richard Hillman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1317135881

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Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Lewd and Notorious
Lewd and Notorious

Author: Katharine Kittredge

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2009-12-21

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0472024418

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Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith's or Myra Hindley's. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society's reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness. The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of these women. Astute analysis of literary, legal, evangelical, epistolary, and political documents provides an understanding of 1700s womanhood. From lusty old maids to murderous mistresses, the characters who exemplify this period's vision of women on the edge are essential acquaintances for anyone wishing to understand the development and ramifications of conceptions of femininity.

Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal
Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal

Author: Francois Soyer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-08-27

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 9004225293

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Using new inquisitorial sources, this study examines the complexities revolving around transgenderism and the construction of gender identity in the early modern Iberian World and the self-perception of individuals whose behaviour, whether consciously or unconsciously, flouted social and sexual conventions.

Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640
Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640

Author: Christine Peters

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1350317292

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Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance of contrasting social, economic and religious conditions in shaping the lives of women in Britain. Gender assumptions were broadly similar in England, Wales and Scotland, but female experience varied widely. Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 explores how this was influenced by various factors, including changes in clanship and inheritance, the employment of single women, the punishment of pregnant brides and scolds, the introduction of Protestantism, and the fusion of fairy beliefs with ideas of demonological witchcraft. Peters' text is the first comparative survey and analysis of the diversity of women's lives in Britain during the early modern period.

Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England
Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England

Author: R. Loughnane

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-03

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1137349352

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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Staged Transgression was followed by a companion collection, Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England (2019), also available from Palgrave: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00892-5

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens
Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens

Author: Susan Frye

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0195117352

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This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities, households, and court -- and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections.These clear and Lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of racer in the early modern period.

Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England
Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England

Author: Corinne S. Abate

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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The essays that comprise this collection explore how private and domestic and predominantly female spaces were imagined and employed in the early modern period so as to produce and reproduce culture.

Modern women on trial
Modern women on trial

Author: Lucy Bland

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1847798950

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Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.

Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World
Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World

Author: Kimberly Anne Coles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-03

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1317041011

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All of the essays in this volume capture the body in a particular attitude: in distress, vulnerability, pain, pleasure, labor, health, reproduction, or preparation for death. They attend to how the body’s transformations affect the social and political arrangements that surround it. And they show how apprehension of the body – in social and political terms – gives it shape.