Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-929934-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Social History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shepard, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie