Article: Gender, Sex and Subordination in England: 1500-1800.

Gender, Sex & Subordination in England 1500-1800 is a general survey of the construction and meaning of gender in early modern England. This ambitious work claims to map "a new historical country," the realm of gender and patriarchy, for the first time and to provide "an initial argument" (p. x) for thinking about the subject in the crucial centuries when "modem patriarchy, a new system of gender relations, began to be created." (p. 296) Despite Fletcher's claim, many early modern historians have written about the "big picture" in the history of women, gender, and patriarchy before him - Alice Clark, Joan Kelly, Lawrence Stone, Judith Bennett, and Martha Howell, to name ...

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