ISBN:
9780582404298
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 p)
Series Statement:
Women And Men In History
Parallel Title:
Print version O'Dowd, Mary A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800
DDC:
305.409415
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One Politics -- 1 Marriage, Lordship and Politics, c. 1500-1692 -- Politics and marriage networks in sixteenth-century Ireland -- Changing patterns of marriage in the seventeenth century -- Political influence and power -- Dublin Castle and court politics -- Rebellion and war -- Conclusion -- 2 Politics, Patriotism and the Public Sphere: Women and Politics, 1692-1800 -- Parliamentary politics -- Public sphere -- Popular politics and patriotism
Abstract:
Rebellion, republicanism and women -- Conclusion -- Part Two The Economy -- 3 Portions, Property and Home: Women and the Economy, 1500-1696 -- Single women and marriage portions -- Heiresses -- Single women in poor families -- Married women in landed families -- Married women in non-landed families -- Widows, dower and jointures -- Conclusion -- 4 Women and Economic Opportunities in Eighteenth-Century Ireland -- Family businesses -- Women traders -- Poor women -- Domestic service -- Farm work and servants -- Conclusion -- Part Three Religion and Education
Abstract:
5 Women and Religious Change, 1500-1690 -- Pre-Reformation -- Popular religion -- Post-Reformation: the Catholic Church -- Women in the Church of Ireland, 1536-1690 -- Presbyterianism -- Quakers, Independents and Baptists -- 6 Charity, Catechising and Convents: Women and Religious Institutions, 1690-1800 -- Reforming, manners, family prayer and evangelicalism -- Women and philanthropy -- Lay Catholic women, education and convents -- 7 Reading, Writing and Intellectual Interests -- Literacy and education in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Education in the eighteenth century
Abstract:
Books and reading -- Writing -- Part Four Ideas -- 8 Ideas and Laws About Women -- 'Corraghliochas na mBan' (Female Policy Detected) -- Christian ideology -- Science and medicine -- Protestant Reformation and Catholic reform -- Colonial discourse and gender -- Marriage, patriarchy and the law -- The strengthening of Catholic patriarchy? -- Behavioural and conduct books and the virtuous woman -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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