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Household Politics
Don Herzog
其他書名
Conflict in Early Modern England
出版Yale University Press, 2013-04-16
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / 18th CenturyHistory / Social History
ISBN97803001951700300195176
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MEGrNl3LdUIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather—not that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Indeed many held that a man had to be an idiot or a buffoon to try to act on their hoary “wisdom.â€? Households didn't bask serenely in naturalized or essentialized patriarchy. Instead, husbands, wives, and servants struggled endlessly over authority. Nor did some insidiously gendered public/private distinction make the political subordination of women invisible. Conflict, Herzog argues, doesn't corrode social order: it's what social order usually consists in. He uses the argument to impeach conservatives and their radical critics for sharing confused alternatives. The social world Herzog brings vibrantly alive is much richer—and much pricklier—than many imagine.