Laura Gowing
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 376068 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Gowing |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Gowing |
| FIRMA | GOWING L |
| AFILIACIONES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3759-8985 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
In Memoriam
Girls on Forms
The 1650s saw an influx of young women to skilled apprenticeships in London's companies. Apprenticed to women through the names of their husbands, they practiced seamstry and millinery in a wide range of guilds. The preprinted forms by which these girls were indentured demonstrate the means by which a long-established city institution both made room for women, incorporating them into the culture of company, and kept them marginal. A series of pri…
The Twinkling of a Bedstaff
This article investigates the social history of the bed in England 1500–1700. It proposes an approach that uses legal records to recover the emotional resonances and social practices of an object in its context. The legal records are particularly useful for their use of narrative: their reliance on storytelling, it is argued, is not incidental but central for their importance as a source. Beds were sociable places, often shared: the crimes of ill…
The Manner of Submission’
In early modern London, gesture, demeanour and manners embodied the hierarchies of gender and status. An archive of litigation between male and female apprentices and their masters and mistresses offers a way to reconstruct the performances of power and submission in urban working households. Young men manifested all the misbehaviours of urban youth, both troublesome and central to the performance of masculinity; society expected them to display …
Women's Bodies and the Making of Sex in Seventeenth-Century England
Histories of sexual difference have dated the invention of modern sex, with its binary opposition of male and female, to the eighteenth century: before then, following the models of classical medicine, sexual difference was contingent on humors and somewhat flexible. This piece argues that the social context of sexual difference modifies this narrative. In early modern England, the corporeal and social side of sex anchored female bodies firmly to…
Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800
This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the
Transformation of Love
Common Bodies. Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
The Reformed tradition remains an important subject of study-not because it explains the entire psychology of our modern capitalist world, but because it offers the basis for understanding Protestant Christianity in an increasingly secular world.An exhaustive, almost encyclopedic, display of information will leave readers feeling a bit overwhelmed, so many may find that the book is best read in sections and used as a reference work, especially be…
The Haunting of Susan Lay
At Easter 1650, Susan Lay, a servant in an Essex alehouse, saw the ghost of her mistress, who had been buried three days before. This article explores the history that lay behind her experience: of sexual relationships with both her master and his son, the births and deaths of two bastard children, and beneath it all, a relationship of antagonism, competition, and intimacy with her mistress. It uses this and other legal records to examine the rel…
Domestic Dangers
Domestic Dangers
Domestic Dangers
This book examines for the first time women's experiences and gender relations in the diverse and mobile society of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London. It focuses on disputes over sex, marriage, and insults, with a detailed analysis based on legal records that have not been used before. It presents a powerful and vivid picture of the working of gender relations, honour, and morals in the practice of daily life.
Women in Court
The church courts held in St Paul's Cathedral and known across England as ‘the bawdy courts’ administered spiritual justice covering issues ranging from church attendance and Sabbath-keeping to the regulation of sex and marriage. By the early seventeenth century, the deposition books are very largely given over to the meticulous recording of disputes about sexual insult fought largely between and about women. In late sixteenth-century England, sl…
Women, Status and the Popular Culture of Dishonour
The history of honour in early modern English society has tended of necessity to focus on dishonour. The ways in which women and men were defamed, shamed and dishonoured have seemed to offer a vivid insight into how what we call ‘honour’ worked in early modern society. And yet honour and dishonour were not exactly correspondent points on the same axis of values: what was dishonouring was not necessarily the opposite of what constituted honour. Th…
Gender and the Language of Insult in Early Modern London
Gender and the Language of Insult in Early Modern London Get access Laura Gowing Laura Gowing Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1, SPRING 1993, Pages 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/35.1.1 Published: 01 March 1993
Gender and the Language of Insult in Early Modern London
Gender and the Language of Insult in Early Modern London Get access Laura Gowing Laura Gowing Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1, SPRING 1993, Pages 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/35.1.1 Published: 01 March 1993
The Haunting of Susan Lay
At Easter 1650, Susan Lay, a servant in an Essex alehouse, saw the ghost of her mistress, who had been buried three days before. This article explores the history that lay behind her experience: of sexual relationships with both her master and his son, the births and deaths of two bastard children, and beneath it all, a relationship of antagonism, competition, and intimacy with her mistress. It uses this and other legal records to examine the rel…
Girls on Forms
The 1650s saw an influx of young women to skilled apprenticeships in London's companies. Apprenticed to women through the names of their husbands, they practiced seamstry and millinery in a wide range of guilds. The preprinted forms by which these girls were indentured demonstrate the means by which a long-established city institution both made room for women, incorporating them into the culture of company, and kept them marginal. A series of pri…
The Manner of Submission’
In early modern London, gesture, demeanour and manners embodied the hierarchies of gender and status. An archive of litigation between male and female apprentices and their masters and mistresses offers a way to reconstruct the performances of power and submission in urban working households. Young men manifested all the misbehaviours of urban youth, both troublesome and central to the performance of masculinity; society expected them to display …
Women's Bodies and the Making of Sex in Seventeenth-Century England
Histories of sexual difference have dated the invention of modern sex, with its binary opposition of male and female, to the eighteenth century: before then, following the models of classical medicine, sexual difference was contingent on humors and somewhat flexible. This piece argues that the social context of sexual difference modifies this narrative. In early modern England, the corporeal and social side of sex anchored female bodies firmly to…
Women, Status and the Popular Culture of Dishonour
The history of honour in early modern English society has tended of necessity to focus on dishonour. The ways in which women and men were defamed, shamed and dishonoured have seemed to offer a vivid insight into how what we call ‘honour’ worked in early modern society. And yet honour and dishonour were not exactly correspondent points on the same axis of values: what was dishonouring was not necessarily the opposite of what constituted honour. Th…
Gender and the Language of Insult in Early Modern London
Gender and the Language of Insult in Early Modern London Get access Laura Gowing Laura Gowing Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 35, Issue 1, SPRING 1993, Pages 1-21, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/35.1.1 Published: 01 March 1993
Women, Status and the Popular Culture of Dishonour
The history of honour in early modern English society has tended of necessity to focus on dishonour. The ways in which women and men were defamed, shamed and dishonoured have seemed to offer a vivid insight into how what we call ‘honour’ worked in early modern society. And yet honour and dishonour were not exactly correspondent points on the same axis of values: what was dishonouring was not necessarily the opposite of what constituted honour. Th…
Domestic Dangers
This book examines for the first time women's experiences and gender relations in the diverse and mobile society of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London. It focuses on disputes over sex, marriage, and insults, with a detailed analysis based on legal records that have not been used before. It presents a powerful and vivid picture of the working of gender relations, honour, and morals in the practice of daily life.
Women in Court
The church courts held in St Paul's Cathedral and known across England as ‘the bawdy courts’ administered spiritual justice covering issues ranging from church attendance and Sabbath-keeping to the regulation of sex and marriage. By the early seventeenth century, the deposition books are very largely given over to the meticulous recording of disputes about sexual insult fought largely between and about women. In late sixteenth-century England, sl…
Domestic Dangers
Domestic Dangers
The Haunting of Susan Lay
At Easter 1650, Susan Lay, a servant in an Essex alehouse, saw the ghost of her mistress, who had been buried three days before. This article explores the history that lay behind her experience: of sexual relationships with both her master and his son, the births and deaths of two bastard children, and beneath it all, a relationship of antagonism, competition, and intimacy with her mistress. It uses this and other legal records to examine the rel…
Common Bodies. Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
The Reformed tradition remains an important subject of study-not because it explains the entire psychology of our modern capitalist world, but because it offers the basis for understanding Protestant Christianity in an increasingly secular world.An exhaustive, almost encyclopedic, display of information will leave readers feeling a bit overwhelmed, so many may find that the book is best read in sections and used as a reference work, especially be…
Transformation of Love
Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800
This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the
Women's Bodies and the Making of Sex in Seventeenth-Century England
Histories of sexual difference have dated the invention of modern sex, with its binary opposition of male and female, to the eighteenth century: before then, following the models of classical medicine, sexual difference was contingent on humors and somewhat flexible. This piece argues that the social context of sexual difference modifies this narrative. In early modern England, the corporeal and social side of sex anchored female bodies firmly to…
The Manner of Submission’
In early modern London, gesture, demeanour and manners embodied the hierarchies of gender and status. An archive of litigation between male and female apprentices and their masters and mistresses offers a way to reconstruct the performances of power and submission in urban working households. Young men manifested all the misbehaviours of urban youth, both troublesome and central to the performance of masculinity; society expected them to display …
The Twinkling of a Bedstaff
This article investigates the social history of the bed in England 1500–1700. It proposes an approach that uses legal records to recover the emotional resonances and social practices of an object in its context. The legal records are particularly useful for their use of narrative: their reliance on storytelling, it is argued, is not incidental but central for their importance as a source. Beds were sociable places, often shared: the crimes of ill…
Girls on Forms
The 1650s saw an influx of young women to skilled apprenticeships in London's companies. Apprenticed to women through the names of their husbands, they practiced seamstry and millinery in a wide range of guilds. The preprinted forms by which these girls were indentured demonstrate the means by which a long-established city institution both made room for women, incorporating them into the culture of company, and kept them marginal. A series of pri…
In Memoriam
Historical Economic and Social Studies (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 obras) · History (8 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 obras)