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Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640: Turning the World Upside Down

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640: Turning the World Upside Down

Amussen, Susan D.
Underdown, David E.
Kümin, Beat

Hardcover

Series: Cultures of Early Modern Europe

General Gender StudiesGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1350020672
ISBN13: 9781350020672
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 6 2017
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.

Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft, the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas were central to understanding society and politics as well as the ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern society.

This is a vital study for anyone interested in understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.

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