{"product_id":"narratives-of-working-women-in-early-modern-london-gendering-the-city-9781501520341","title":"Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNarratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes depictions of non-elite, working women in relation to specific London neighborhoods and sites in early modern drama and culture from primarily the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. The women laborers explored in this book, who worked on the fringes of masculinized commerce, elicited anxious discursive responses to their ubiquitous public presence. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book investigates these discursive strategies, or gendered place narratives, in dramatic works such as Ben Jonson's \u003cem\u003eEpicene\u003c\/em\u003e, the unattributed play, \u003cem\u003eThe Fair Maid of the Exchange\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Heywood's \u003cem\u003eThe Wise-woman of Hogsdon\u003c\/em\u003e, and Shackerly Marmion's \u003cem\u003eHolland's Leaguer\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as a variety of early modern pamphlets, poems, ballads, and prose works. By rhetorically associating working women with contested urban commercial neighborhoods and locales, these works attempt to minimize, control, or delegitimize the agency of laboring women. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn examination of these narratives exposes underlying social and economic inequities in early modern London, which affected the conditions of women's labor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChristi Spain-Savage\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Siena College. She has published articles in the academic journals \u003cem\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEarly Theatre\u003c\/em\u003e and in the book collections \u003cem\u003eMapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLost Plays in Shakespeare's England\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Medieval Institute Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057927057682,"sku":"9781501520341","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_878f2d1a-f6b8-45b0-abaf-4d210783ce15.jpg?v=1772016774","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/narratives-of-working-women-in-early-modern-london-gendering-the-city-9781501520341","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}