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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Gender and Property in Early Modern England Natasha Korda. house itself but of its ... property , such as household stuff . The lexical emergence and increasing ... relations during the period . This book thus aims to illuminate both the ...
... property relations entirely . For while such " superfluitie " introduces error , fraud , conflict , struggle , and dis- pute into property relations , it also introduces desire , social aspiration , and affective bonds among household ...
... relations to household stuff , to reach beyond such contextualizing texts as domestic manuals , conduct books ... property rights to speak of in early modern England . Recent femi- nist scholarship , however , drawing on records of actual ...
... relation to broader historical shifts in modes of production and property relations that have had profound and lasting effects on the social and economic status of women . My concern is thus less with household objects in their status ...
... property ? When did female consumption threaten , and when did it serve to buttress , patriarchal power ? How did the con- tradictions inherent in women's property relations form or deform female subjectivity ? How did early modern ...
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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