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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens : Women's Alliances in Early Modern England.
This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the varied forms of women's alliances in early modern England. Women, who were prohibited from direct participation in the institutional structures that shaped the lives of men, constructed informal connections with other women for surviv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Alliances in the City; 1 Maidservants of London: Sisterhoods of Kinship and Labor; 2 Women, Work, and Plays in an English Medieval Town; 3 Women's Networks and the Female Vagrant: A Hard Case; 4 ""No Good Thing Ever Comes Out of It"": Male Expectation and Female Alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward Ho; Part II: Alliances in the Household; 5 ""A P[ar]cell of Murdereing Bitches"": Female Relationships in an Eighteenth-Century Slaveholding Household; 6 The Appropriation of Pleasure in The Magnetic Lady.
- 7 Female Alliance and the Construction of Homoeroticism in As You Like It and Twelfth Night8 ""Companion Me with My Mistress"": Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and Their Waiting Women; Part III: Materializing Communities; 9 Tracing Women's Connections from a Letter by Elizabeth Ralegh; 10 Sewing Connections: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and Seventeenth-Century Anonymous Needleworkers; 11 ""Faire Eliza's Chaine"": Two Female Writers' Literary Links to Queen Elizabeth I; 12 Mary Ward's ""Jesuitresses"" and the Construction of a Typological Community; Part IV: Emerging Alliances.
- 13 The Dearth of the Author: Anonymity's Allies and Swetnam the Woman-hater14 The Erotics of Female Friendship in Early Modern England; 15 Alliance and Exile: Aphra Behn's Racial Identity; 16 Aemilia Lanyer and the Invention of White Womanhood; 17 Afterword: Producing New Knowledge; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.