By Susan Broomhall

This assortment explores how events of authority, governance, and effect have been practised via either gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early smooth England. Authority is inherently relational it needs to be asserted over somebody who permits or is compelled to just accept this dominance. The means to workout authority is as a result a social and cultural act, one who is formed by means of social identities akin to gender and through social practices that come with feelings. The contributions during this quantity, exploring case stories of girls and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, family rule, workout of legislations and order, and inventive organization, examine how gender and feelings formed the methods various members may perhaps assert or continue authority, or certainly disrupt or supply possible choices to traditional practices of authority.

Read or Download Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Genders and Sexualities in History) PDF

Similar gender studies books

Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004 (Gender and Political Violence)

A selected darkish triumph of recent nationalism has been its skill to cajole electorate to sacrifice their lives for a political imaginative and prescient solid through emotional ties to a typical identity. Both women and men can reply to nationalistic calls to struggle that painting muscular warriors protecting their country opposed to an simply recognizable enemy.

Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender

Public bathrooms offer a special chance for interrogating how traditional assumptions concerning the physique, sexuality, privateness, and expertise are shaped in public areas and inscribed via layout throughout cultures. This choice of unique essays from overseas students is the 1st to discover the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public bathrooms as gendered areas.

La dynamique des sexes au travail: Le pouvoir, l'amour et l'inconscient (Dynamiques d'entreprises) (French Edition)

Ce livre nous aide à décrypter les fantasmes qui opèrent au travail, en établissant des passerelles entre l. a. vie de famille, los angeles vie privée du couple et l. a. scène de l'entreprise. Les crises financières et économiques que nous traversons s'en trouvent éclairées. Si les forces de l'inconscient façonnent l. a. vie de nos companies, de nos sociétés, elles ont leur origine dans l'intime.

Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England 1830 - 1885 (Gender in History MUP)

This interdisciplinary research of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties approximately non secular and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, while ostensibly approximately theology and liturgy, have been additionally makes an attempt to outline the position and nature of girls. Drawing on a number of resources, this booklet seeks to revise our realizing of the Victorian spiritual panorama, either retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they're often relegated, and calling for a reassessment of the Protestant perspective to the female excellent.

Extra info for Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Genders and Sexualities in History)

Sample text

Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early by Susan Broomhall