Women, status and the popular culture of dishonour

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volumn 6, Issue , 1996, Pages 225-234

  Gowing, Laura ^a  

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EID: 17744394307     PISSN: 00804401     EISSN: 14740648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3679238     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. On defamation see J. A. Sharpe, Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York, Borthwick Papers V (York, 1980);
2. Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 (Cambridge, 1987), ch. 10;
3. I discuss the language of slander and honour in chapters 3-4 of Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford, 1996).
4. Thomas G. Barnes, 'Star Chamber Litigants and their Counsel, 1596-1641', in Legal Records and the Historian, ed. J. H. Baker (1978), 9-10. Women suing cases as femes soles were even more often of gentry and noble status.
5. Martin Ingram, 'Ridings, Rough Music and Mocking Rhymes in Early Modern England', in Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England ed. Barry Reay (London and Sydney, 1985);
6. Adam Fox, 'Ballads, Libels and Popular Ridicule in Jacobean England', Past and Present, no. 145 (1994), 47-83.
7. King v. Lawrence (1609), Public Record Office STAC 8 190/07, m. 14, 15.
8. Robbins v. Corniche (1610), STAC 8 254/29 m. 2.
9. Abraham v. Tyckell (1609), STAC 8 036/06.
10. Adam Fox, 'Aspects of Oral Culture and its Development in Early Modern England' (D. Phil. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992), 233-4.
11. Nightingale v. Rotton (1611), STAC 8 220/31, m. 15.
12. Gordon & Frances v. Auncell (1623), STAC 8 153/29, m. 2.
13. PRO SP 12/269, no. 22.
14. Eliot v. Deering (1609), STAC 8 138/05. Both John and his accusers gave themselves the rank of gentlemen in court.
15. Venables v. Knight (1603), STAC 8 288/12, m. 51.
16. Taylor v. Cowane (1609), STAC 8 285/27.
17. On which ideas see Gail Kern Paster, 'Leaky Vessels: The Incontinent Women of City Comedy', Renaissance Drama, n. s. , XVIII (1987), 43-65;
18. Peter Stallybrass, 'Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed', in Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan and Nancy Vickers (Chicago, 1986), 123-42;
19. Judith Bennett, 'Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work', History Workshop Journal, XXXI (1991), 166-88;
20. and Margaret Miles, Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West (Boston, 1989), ch. 5.
21. It is perhaps worth noting here that Elizabethan popular fantasies about the highest woman in the land, the Queen, focused not on the openness of her body but its supposed closure- her alleged incapacity for sexual intercourse: Carole Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (Philadelphia, 1994), 83.
22. Lawrey v. Dier (1616), STAC 8 202/30, m. 3.
23. Stallybrass, 'Patriarchal Territories', 133.
24. For an analysis of the materia] power of misogyny in the world of work, see Bennett, 'Misogyny'.