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Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760 Ingrid H. Tague 9780851159072

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An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women. Modern scholars have often portrayed this agenda as representing the rise of a middle-class ideology, but Ingrid Tague argues that the new rhetoric held enormous appeal for those women who would appear to be its greatest targets: wealthy, fashionable 'women of quality'. Using the correspondence and diaries of these women, Tague traces the ways in which they adopted, adapted, and exploited ideals of femininity. In their hands, feminine values could become powerful tools that enabled them to compete for status and reputation. Ironically, by identifying femininity with private, trivial concerns, these ideals created unique opportunities for elite women. Female participation in informal social and political activities placed women at the heart of aristocratic power in the early eighteenth century, even as they employed the language of wifely subordination and domesticity. Ingrid Tague is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.

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INGRID TAGUE teaches in the department of history, Denver University.

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A subtle study of early eighteenth-century elite women. The book is well written and comprehensively referenced and provides a valuable addition to existing research, as well as an extremely useful undergraduate textbook. * HISTORY *
[Written with] interpretive skill, imagination and panache. The result is a book of fundamental importance for all who are interested in the development of English Society and an absorbing contribution to gender studies.... Deserves to be widely read. * CONTINUITY AND CHANGE *



Book Information
ISBN 9780851159072
Author Ingrid H. Tague
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g

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