Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern EnglandUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2002 M08 5 - 276 pages Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been "trafficked" as passive objects of exchange between men. |
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... ideological change . The importance of interrogating the rift between ideology and mater- ial practice is particularly clear within the field of women's history . For without such interrogation , as feminist scholarship has demonstrated ...
... ideology and material practice with respect to early modern women's property relations . While a study of the early modern household cannot ignore house- hold subjects , it is a central claim of this book that , during the late ...
... ideologically motivated link between the need to control the movement of tropes and ... [ early modern ] exigencies of social control , including , though not limited to , the governance of the household or oikos . " 37 Parker's ...
... ideological conformity , since one's definition of the genre necessarily depends upon one's conception of what ... ideology but argues that such resistance is in fact charac- teristic of the genre itself ( an assertion with which I ...
... ideological contradiction and material change , and by attempt- ing to trace out the " proportions " between them . My own methodology in the readings that follow traces the historical proportions of such complex words as " cates " in ...
Contents
Housekeeping and Household Stuff | 15 |
Household Kates Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew | 52 |
Judicious Oeillades Supervising Marital Property in The Merry Wives of Windsor | 76 |
The Tragedy of the Handkerchief Female Paraphernalia and the Properties of Jealousy in Othello | 111 |
Isabellas Rule Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure | 159 |
Household PropertyStage Property | 192 |
Notes | 213 |
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