{"product_id":"shakespeares-domestic-economies-gender-and-property-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9780812236637","title":"Shakespeare's Domestic Economies; Gender and Property in Early Modern England (Hardback) 9780812236637","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare's Domestic Economies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender and Property in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNatasha Korda (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812236637\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 August 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 11 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.594 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a truly excellent book on Shakespeare's treatment of domestic economies, that is, his attention to the domain of household management increasingly seen as the women's sphere in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.\" (Jean Howard, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e) \"This exceptional study makes an important and most welcome contribution.\" (\u003ci\u003eBen Jonson Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Korda draws on the best aspects of a variety of recent critical approaches while charting new territory of her own.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Domestic Economies\u003c\/i\u003e explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been \"trafficked\" as passive objects of exchange between men.\u003cbr\u003e In the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the \"keepers\" of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life-objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555707253016,"sku":"9780812236637","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeares-domestic-economies-gender-and-property-in-early-modern-england-hardback-9780812236637","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}