During the early modern period, men and women in England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the

This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct

Simultaneously challenging conventional male-dominated thought and revisionist modern feminism, this book argues that gendered identities can best be conceived

History of women in western Europe during the years 1500 to 1800, discussing what females of various stations could expect at every stage of life from the time

A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality