{"product_id":"gender-culture-and-politics-in-england-1560-1640-turning-the-world-upside-down-paperback","title":"Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640: Turning the World Upside Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan D. Amussen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid E. Underdown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640\u003c\/i\u003e integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around them upside down in very specific, gendered ways. Using case studies from theatre, civic ritual and witchcraft, the book demonstrates how ideas of gendered inversion, failed patriarchs, and disorderly women permeate the mental world of early modern England. Amussen and Underdown show both how these ideas were central to understanding society and politics as well as the ways in which both women and men were disciplined formally and informally for inverting the gender order. In doing so, they give a glimpse of how we can connect different dimensions of early modern society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a vital study for anyone interested in understanding the connections between social practice, culture, and politics in 16th- and 17th-century England.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan D. Amussen\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of California, Merced, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eAn Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e (1988). She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eAttending to Early Modern Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1998; with Adele Seeff) and \u003ci\u003ePolitical Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e (1995; with Mark A. Kishlansky). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe late \u003cb\u003eDavid E. Underdown\u003c\/b\u003e was George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eFire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003eRevel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003ePrides Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51810942288160,"sku":"9781350090057","price":88.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d5474039b4c1759913f2d78201af09be.webp?v=1780998947","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/gender-culture-and-politics-in-england-1560-1640-turning-the-world-upside-down-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}