Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance: An Annotated Edition of Contemporary DocumentsLloyd Davis Taylor & Francis, 1998 - 416 pages First published in 1998. This anthology coomprises a diverse range of historical treatises and tracts that discuss and debate gender and sexual relations in early modern England. Combining complete texts and extracts-many hitherto unavailable in modern editions-the collection focuses on prevailing conceptions of sexuality and gender in major areas and institutions of Tudor and Stuart society. A broad selection of religious sermons, moral handbooks, household manuals, midwifery and legal textbooks, ballads and chapbooks has been chosen. |
Contents
Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed | 3 |
A White Sheet or a Warning for Whoremongers | 37 |
An Apology for Women | 63 |
Of the Lawfulness of Marriage upon a Lawful Divorce | 89 |
A Treatise against Painting and Tincturing | 107 |
The Answer of a Mother unto Her Seduced | 133 |
A Sermon | 145 |
Described Methodically | 165 |
Or a Direction for Married Persons | 245 |
The Birth of Mankind | 277 |
Ballads | 309 |
A Merry Dialogue betwixt a Married Man and His | 318 |
The Bridling Saddling and Riding of a Rich Churl | 328 |
The Admirable History of the Possession and | 351 |
Works Cited | 407 |
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