Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating...
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Author: Natasha Korda
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Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England by Korda, Natasha

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England

$208.58

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England

$208.58
Author: Natasha Korda
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Shakespeare's Domestic Economies explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, and Measure for Measure in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been trafficked as passive objects of exchange between men.

In the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the keepers of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life--objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands.

Author: Natasha Korda
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 08/05/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780812236637


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 984

About the Author
Natasha Korda is Associate Professor of English and women's studies at Wesleyan University.

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