xvi, 301 pages : 22 cm

Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside the household, education, religion and women's activity in the community and the wider world

Includes index

"A Phoenix Giant Paperback."T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Women in history. Introduction : women and the historians ; Gender, class and race ; Women in the population -- Marriage, sex, and the family. Marriage ; Women and sex ; Motherhood, family and friends -- Women's material worlds. Health and strength ; Women's livelihoods ; Varieties of waged work ; Women and material culture -- Women's mental worlds. Literacy and learning ; Women's religious communities ; The practice of Christianity ; Custom, belief and popular culture -- Women and men's worlds. Women, the law and property ; Women and men's worlds ; Women and crime ; Women in 1500, women in 1760

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