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Dit boek onderzoekt een paradox in de geschiedenis van het vroeg moderne Engeland: hoewel een derde van de volwassen vrouwen nooit trouwde, bleven deze vrouwen grotendeels afwezig in historisch onderzoek. De auteur introduceert ons tot het verschil dat de huwelijkse staat uitmaakte en tot de belangrijke manieren waarop het leven van vroeg moderne vrouwen hierdoor beïnvloed werd. Door het huwelijk niet langer als de norm in het sociaal, economisch en cultureel leven te beschouwen, kan het boek ons huidige begrip van het leven van mensen in het verleden verfijnen. Het is zowel een sociaal-economische studie van alleenstaande vrouwen als een culturele studie van de betekenis van alleen zijn in het vroeg moderne Engeland.
Single women --- Economic conditions --- History --- Social conditions --- Sociology of work --- Law of real property --- Housekeeping --- Family law. Inheritance law --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 1500-1799 --- Great Britain --- Family --- Singles --- Labour --- Unmarried women --- Images of women --- Widows --- Book --- Civil status --- Service staff --- Property rights --- Inheritance law
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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799
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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1799
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When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families—married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained single throughout their lives.Despite the significant number of never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the study of their role and position in that society has been largely neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight the important minority of women who never married but also the first to address the critical matter of differences among women from the perspective of marital status.Essays by leading scholars—among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry Wiesner—deal with topics including the sexual and emotional relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the experiences of singlewomen in earlier times.
Single women --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1799 --- Marie de France --- Sex role --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Europe --- History --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Spinsters --- Unmarried women --- Single people --- Women --- Homosexuality --- Singles --- Female homosexuality --- Labour --- Sexuality --- Slavery --- Images of women --- Widows --- Book --- Demography
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