Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich

Influenced by interdisciplinary studies and the ‘spatial turn’ in social history, this article explores the relationship between space and the construction of gender identity amongst the poor to middling sorts of seventeenth-century Norwich. To this end I have considered gendered interaction in diff...

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Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-39122024-02-27T05:03:19Z Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich WILLIAMSON, Fiona Influenced by interdisciplinary studies and the ‘spatial turn’ in social history, this article explores the relationship between space and the construction of gender identity amongst the poor to middling sorts of seventeenth-century Norwich. To this end I have considered gendered interaction in different ‘types' of space: domestic, private space, ‘borderline’ space – such as the alehouse or threshold – and, finally, the public space of streets and markets. Each section explores the relevance of recent spatial historiography in the Norwich context, and evaluates whether men and women inhabited different ‘worlds' in the city, not only in terms of their physical movement or access to certain places but also, more importantly, in terms of how their presence was perceived, and thus their identity shaped by others. The empirical basis is primarily defamation depositions of the Norwich Diocese Court, largely used by the middling sorts, contextualized where appropriate with secular court records. 2012-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2655 info:doi/10.2752/147800412X13270753068722 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3912/viewcontent/Space_and_the_City.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Gender history urban history Civic and Community Engagement Gender and Sexuality
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urban history
Civic and Community Engagement
Gender and Sexuality
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history
urban history
Civic and Community Engagement
Gender and Sexuality
WILLIAMSON, Fiona
Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich
description Influenced by interdisciplinary studies and the ‘spatial turn’ in social history, this article explores the relationship between space and the construction of gender identity amongst the poor to middling sorts of seventeenth-century Norwich. To this end I have considered gendered interaction in different ‘types' of space: domestic, private space, ‘borderline’ space – such as the alehouse or threshold – and, finally, the public space of streets and markets. Each section explores the relevance of recent spatial historiography in the Norwich context, and evaluates whether men and women inhabited different ‘worlds' in the city, not only in terms of their physical movement or access to certain places but also, more importantly, in terms of how their presence was perceived, and thus their identity shaped by others. The empirical basis is primarily defamation depositions of the Norwich Diocese Court, largely used by the middling sorts, contextualized where appropriate with secular court records.
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title Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich
title_short Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich
title_full Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich
title_fullStr Space and the city: Gender identities in the seventeenth-century Norwich
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2655
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