Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford Studies in Social History
ISBN-10
019929934X
ISBN-13
9780199299348
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 27th, 2006
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
420 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.20 x 2.00 cms
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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.
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.
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