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POPULAR CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD -sexuality, marriage, terminology

POPULAR CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD -sexuality, marriage, terminology. POPULAR CULTURE. locality, age, gender, religion, class. ambiguous, complex, contradictory, divided, dynamic, fluid, fractured, gendered, hybrid, interacting, multiple, overlapping, plural, resistant, shared.

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POPULAR CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD -sexuality, marriage, terminology

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  1. POPULAR CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD -sexuality, marriage, terminology

  2. POPULAR CULTURE • locality, age, gender, religion, class. • ambiguous, complex, contradictory, divided, dynamic, fluid, fractured, gendered, hybrid, interacting, multiple, overlapping, plural, resistant, shared.

  3. SEXUALITY Women were often the focus of differing interpretations of sexuality and were physically considered to be ‘deviant’ males.

  4. SEX • marriage sex • sex marriage • pregnant bride OK • Meadows, ditches, hedges, stiles, barns, dairies, master’s house, woods, inns, alehouses, churchyards, woman’s home

  5. Through friends • Relatives • As servants • Sent letters • Segregated in church • Kissing, fondling, groping • Unrequited love, romantic love, quarrels • Troubled courtships

  6. TERMINOLOGY • Sex as an act of war • Siege • Entered

  7. Bang Beat Charge Grill Grind Hit Knock Mount Pierce Poke Punch Ram Ride Stab Strike Stuff Thresh Thump

  8. Arrow Awl Blade Bolt Club Engine Flail Gun Hammer Hanger Instrument Knife Ladle Lance Loom Mast Maypole Oar Pestle Pistol Plough Pole Rod Rolling pin Rudder Shuttle Sickle Spade Stake Standard Sword Tool Truncheon Weapon Whip Yard MALE PENIS

  9. Box Cabinet Cage Castle Cave Cellar Chamber Corner Fishpond Fort Gap Gash Gate Glove Gulf Hive Mark Mouth Nick Oven Pit Port Pot Premises Pulpit Purse Quagmire Quiver Room Ruff Scabbard Shoe Slit Socket Trench Tub Well Wound FEMALE GENITALS

  10. Punching • Whore • Patriarchal • Unruly • Loose mouth • Cuckold

  11. MARRIAGE • Economic and emotional • Guides and friends • Patient, loving, sweet, modest, quiet, obedient • No divorce • Twenties • 20-25% thirties • 3-4% women and 11-13% male under 20 • 25% never married

  12. ILLEGITIMACY • 30% illegitimate babies had already married fathers • Different types of illegitimacy • 20-25% brides pregnant

  13. RAPE • Sexual freedom and satisfaction for women • Rape hard to prove • Syphilis impacted on women’s sexuality

  14. ADULTERY • Sex outside marriage • Common in upper classes • Female adultery worse because it impacted on men • Married women could be adulterers while married men were just ‘fornicators’

  15. HOMOSEXUALITY • Did occur but seen as a behaviour trait of an individual rather than that of a group • Did not impact upon a man’s masculinity

  16. PUNISHMENTS • Church courts – premarital sex and adultery • Secular courts – illegitimacy - whipped

  17. WIDOWS AND SINGLE WOMEN • Unmarried women – suspect • Sexual predators • Women had to be ‘attached’ to a male relative to be acceptable

  18. Bibliography Reay, Barry. Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750, Longman, London, 1998.

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