Trubowitz Rachel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199604739
- eISBN:
- 9780191741074
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604739.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
The biblical figure of “the nursing father” (Numbers 11:12 and Isaiah 49:23) is a starting point for this chapter. Organized thematically, the chapter explores how the newly evolving discourse of ...
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The biblical figure of “the nursing father” (Numbers 11:12 and Isaiah 49:23) is a starting point for this chapter. Organized thematically, the chapter explores how the newly evolving discourse of maternal nurture informs the construction of male political authority, royalist and anti-royalist. In Basilkon Doron, James VI/I's monarchical self-image as a “nourish father” translates reformist amalgamations of maternal nurture and national identity into royalist terms. In Eikon Basilike, Charles I depicts himself as a pious king and nurturing father to encourage his subjects’ charitable rehabilitation of his shattered royal image. Cromwell's speeches equate “the nursing father” with the new affective bonds unifying the reformed nation. In Of Education, Milton relies on the new discourse of nurture to repudiate the universities’ outmoded, authoritarian approach to learning. In Areopagitica, Milton associates nurture with both ancient Greek liberty and England's divinely inspired reformation.Less
The biblical figure of “the nursing father” (Numbers 11:12 and Isaiah 49:23) is a starting point for this chapter. Organized thematically, the chapter explores how the newly evolving discourse of maternal nurture informs the construction of male political authority, royalist and anti-royalist. In Basilkon Doron, James VI/I's monarchical self-image as a “nourish father” translates reformist amalgamations of maternal nurture and national identity into royalist terms. In Eikon Basilike, Charles I depicts himself as a pious king and nurturing father to encourage his subjects’ charitable rehabilitation of his shattered royal image. Cromwell's speeches equate “the nursing father” with the new affective bonds unifying the reformed nation. In Of Education, Milton relies on the new discourse of nurture to repudiate the universities’ outmoded, authoritarian approach to learning. In Areopagitica, Milton associates nurture with both ancient Greek liberty and England's divinely inspired reformation.
Erika Lorraine Milam
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691181882
- eISBN:
- 9780691185095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691181882.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
This chapter considers the research of women anthropologists during this period. It shows how many anthropologists had fought to refute the picture of universal male authority implied by common ...
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This chapter considers the research of women anthropologists during this period. It shows how many anthropologists had fought to refute the picture of universal male authority implied by common narratives of human evolution were women, often at the very beginning of what turned out to be long, notable careers. Their research gave fuller form to a rhetorically powerful alternative to Man the Hunter in reconstructions of human origins—Woman the Gatherer. Like her partner, Woman the Gatherer found intellectual support in research on long-extinct human ancestors, studies of human cultures today, and animal behavior, with a new emphasis on field research among primates.Less
This chapter considers the research of women anthropologists during this period. It shows how many anthropologists had fought to refute the picture of universal male authority implied by common narratives of human evolution were women, often at the very beginning of what turned out to be long, notable careers. Their research gave fuller form to a rhetorically powerful alternative to Man the Hunter in reconstructions of human origins—Woman the Gatherer. Like her partner, Woman the Gatherer found intellectual support in research on long-extinct human ancestors, studies of human cultures today, and animal behavior, with a new emphasis on field research among primates.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804763110
- eISBN:
- 9780804772938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804763110.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter demonstrates some men's struggles to produce more equitable property arrangements and marital relations, concentrating especially on the problem of the femme coverte, or legal status of ...
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This chapter demonstrates some men's struggles to produce more equitable property arrangements and marital relations, concentrating especially on the problem of the femme coverte, or legal status of the married woman. The radical men who took up the cause of marriage reform with the goal of curbing male authority were engaged in a delicate operation. The “companionate” model of marriage gained increasing popularity over the course of the eighteenth century. It is noted that the laws regarding women and regulating the domestic site, contra Blackstone, were highly contingent. The proposals for legal reform of marriage were the efforts to awaken the family so as to mirror the contractual arrangement founded between the ruler and the people one hundred years earlier.Less
This chapter demonstrates some men's struggles to produce more equitable property arrangements and marital relations, concentrating especially on the problem of the femme coverte, or legal status of the married woman. The radical men who took up the cause of marriage reform with the goal of curbing male authority were engaged in a delicate operation. The “companionate” model of marriage gained increasing popularity over the course of the eighteenth century. It is noted that the laws regarding women and regulating the domestic site, contra Blackstone, were highly contingent. The proposals for legal reform of marriage were the efforts to awaken the family so as to mirror the contractual arrangement founded between the ruler and the people one hundred years earlier.
Lee V. Chambers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781469618173
- eISBN:
- 9781469618197
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469618173.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter assesses what some viewed as the impudence of the Weston sisters and the significance of this construction of political womanliness for understanding the import of horizontal kinship ...
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This chapter assesses what some viewed as the impudence of the Weston sisters and the significance of this construction of political womanliness for understanding the import of horizontal kinship structures and the language of fictive kinship in antebellum reform. Gendered female impudence meant the women were seen as having a very confident attitude, insolent disrespect, obstinate disobedience, and contemptuous disregard for male authority. They challenged all habits of subordination and deference in the American church and social order. Within the horizontal structures of their sibling families, the female authority of their households and their connections to voluntary associations, they constructed a sorority of overlapping blood and fictive kin that helped abolish slavery.Less
This chapter assesses what some viewed as the impudence of the Weston sisters and the significance of this construction of political womanliness for understanding the import of horizontal kinship structures and the language of fictive kinship in antebellum reform. Gendered female impudence meant the women were seen as having a very confident attitude, insolent disrespect, obstinate disobedience, and contemptuous disregard for male authority. They challenged all habits of subordination and deference in the American church and social order. Within the horizontal structures of their sibling families, the female authority of their households and their connections to voluntary associations, they constructed a sorority of overlapping blood and fictive kin that helped abolish slavery.
Meghan J. DiLuzio
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691169576
- eISBN:
- 9781400883035
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691169576.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion in the Ancient World
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role that women of ancient Rome played in public cult. Historians of Roman religion have generally supposed that women were excluded from ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role that women of ancient Rome played in public cult. Historians of Roman religion have generally supposed that women were excluded from official priestly service at Rome. In recent years, however, a number of important studies have challenged specific aspects of this general picture, including the theory of female sacrificial incapacity. There is ample evidence that women could communicate with the gods through sacrifice. Laywomen are recorded as officiants as well. Meanwhile, the question of women's subordination to male authority in the ritual sphere is less easily settled. It indeed seems that married priestesses were subject to the authority of their priestly spouses. However, other priestesses were more independent. The administration of cults under female control seems to have been left to the women themselves, particularly where men were actively excluded. Such self-government was naturally an “internal autonomy” that relied upon the continued consent of the people and the senate.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role that women of ancient Rome played in public cult. Historians of Roman religion have generally supposed that women were excluded from official priestly service at Rome. In recent years, however, a number of important studies have challenged specific aspects of this general picture, including the theory of female sacrificial incapacity. There is ample evidence that women could communicate with the gods through sacrifice. Laywomen are recorded as officiants as well. Meanwhile, the question of women's subordination to male authority in the ritual sphere is less easily settled. It indeed seems that married priestesses were subject to the authority of their priestly spouses. However, other priestesses were more independent. The administration of cults under female control seems to have been left to the women themselves, particularly where men were actively excluded. Such self-government was naturally an “internal autonomy” that relied upon the continued consent of the people and the senate.
Elisabeth van Houts
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198798897
- eISBN:
- 9780191839542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198798897.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History, Social History
This chapter discusses topics such as husbands’ authority and wifely advice, marital violence and collaboration, and shared responsibilities. Once married the husband became the head of the household ...
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This chapter discusses topics such as husbands’ authority and wifely advice, marital violence and collaboration, and shared responsibilities. Once married the husband became the head of the household and the wife fell under his authority. Patriarchal society was based on this inbuilt inequality that consisted often in a precarious balance between the husband, having to show that he was up to his authoritarian role, and the wife understanding her submissive position. A mutual sense of responsibility for their life together was often the glue that kept a couple together. This sense of mutual responsibility was naturally stronger the more affective the relationship was. Both men and women had a role in marriage, and increasingly society recognized that durable indissoluble unions had more chance of success if the couple were compatible, attracted to each other, and prepared to give the relationship a chance.Less
This chapter discusses topics such as husbands’ authority and wifely advice, marital violence and collaboration, and shared responsibilities. Once married the husband became the head of the household and the wife fell under his authority. Patriarchal society was based on this inbuilt inequality that consisted often in a precarious balance between the husband, having to show that he was up to his authoritarian role, and the wife understanding her submissive position. A mutual sense of responsibility for their life together was often the glue that kept a couple together. This sense of mutual responsibility was naturally stronger the more affective the relationship was. Both men and women had a role in marriage, and increasingly society recognized that durable indissoluble unions had more chance of success if the couple were compatible, attracted to each other, and prepared to give the relationship a chance.
Madeleine K. Davies
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314728
- eISBN:
- 9781846316289
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316289.012
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explores the issue of aberrant sexuality in Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca (1938). Rebecca is about a physically diseased woman who is fearless in the face of male authority and who ...
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This chapter explores the issue of aberrant sexuality in Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca (1938). Rebecca is about a physically diseased woman who is fearless in the face of male authority and who defies the rule of patriarchal law. The chapter argues that Rebecca invites the interrogation of a range of encoded meanings and invites readers to read it as a ‘narrative stab at the heart of the rule of law’.Less
This chapter explores the issue of aberrant sexuality in Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca (1938). Rebecca is about a physically diseased woman who is fearless in the face of male authority and who defies the rule of patriarchal law. The chapter argues that Rebecca invites the interrogation of a range of encoded meanings and invites readers to read it as a ‘narrative stab at the heart of the rule of law’.
Elizabeth H. Flowers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835340
- eISBN:
- 9781469601823
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869987_flowers
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. This book argues, however, that for both ...
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The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. This book argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women—all of whom had much at stake—disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary. And, in the turbulent postwar era, debate over their roles caused fierce internal controversy. While the legacy of race and civil rights lingered well into the 1990s, views on women's submission to male authority provided the most salient test by which moderates were identified and expelled in a process that led to significant splits in the Church. In this expansive history of Southern Baptist women, the “woman question” is integral to almost every area of Southern Baptist concern: hermeneutics, ecclesial polity, missionary work, church–state relations, and denominational history. The author's analysis, part of the expanding survey of America's religious and cultural landscape after World War II, points to the South's changing identity, and connects religious and regional issues to the complicated relationship between race and gender during and after the civil rights movement. The author also shows how feminism and shifting women's roles, behaviors, and practices played a significant part in debates that simmer among Baptists and evangelicals throughout the nation today.Less
The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns. This book argues, however, that for both moderate and conservative Baptist women—all of whom had much at stake—disagreements that touched on their familial roles and ecclesial authority have always been primary. And, in the turbulent postwar era, debate over their roles caused fierce internal controversy. While the legacy of race and civil rights lingered well into the 1990s, views on women's submission to male authority provided the most salient test by which moderates were identified and expelled in a process that led to significant splits in the Church. In this expansive history of Southern Baptist women, the “woman question” is integral to almost every area of Southern Baptist concern: hermeneutics, ecclesial polity, missionary work, church–state relations, and denominational history. The author's analysis, part of the expanding survey of America's religious and cultural landscape after World War II, points to the South's changing identity, and connects religious and regional issues to the complicated relationship between race and gender during and after the civil rights movement. The author also shows how feminism and shifting women's roles, behaviors, and practices played a significant part in debates that simmer among Baptists and evangelicals throughout the nation today.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853238393
- eISBN:
- 9781846314186
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238393.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines Dickens' Barnaby Rudge. It compares representations of madness and idiocy within the novel with the concepts and images running through contemporary non-fiction writing, to show ...
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This chapter examines Dickens' Barnaby Rudge. It compares representations of madness and idiocy within the novel with the concepts and images running through contemporary non-fiction writing, to show that it draws on conventional and sometimes rather punitive conceptions while simultaneously revealing preoccupations in common with the later, ‘reformist’ writing by Dickens and others. In this way, Dickens criticises the idiocy of political uprising, whilst at the same time rescuing the idiot from blame. The chapter also discusses how the concept of idiocy allows Dickens to explore concerns about the power of the creative imagination and the dangers that ensue when male authority is divorced from responsibility.Less
This chapter examines Dickens' Barnaby Rudge. It compares representations of madness and idiocy within the novel with the concepts and images running through contemporary non-fiction writing, to show that it draws on conventional and sometimes rather punitive conceptions while simultaneously revealing preoccupations in common with the later, ‘reformist’ writing by Dickens and others. In this way, Dickens criticises the idiocy of political uprising, whilst at the same time rescuing the idiot from blame. The chapter also discusses how the concept of idiocy allows Dickens to explore concerns about the power of the creative imagination and the dangers that ensue when male authority is divorced from responsibility.
