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MARKETING WOMEN:
REPRESENTATIONS OF WORKING WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN LONDON
by
Kimberlee Diane Keeline
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Kimberlee Diane Keeline
Object Description
| Title | Marketing women: representations of working women in early modern London |
| Author | Keeline, Kimberlee Diane |
| Author email | kim@keeline.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-02 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 21 July 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-07-21 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lemon, Rebecca |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Smith, Bruce R. Kemp, Anthony Wills, John E. |
| Abstract | Frequently in early modern London, as Elizabeth Fowler aptly put it, "the sexual is constituted in economic terms, and the economic is construed in sexual terms. " Reproduction, production, and consumption are linked in early modern ideology. This project builds on and extends the many historical studies about working women by turning to fictional representations as another site of evidence. In this project I focus on the male voices of popular literature (including John Skelton, Thomas Deloney, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and Thomas Dekker), when viewing women in artisan, retail and service situations, the most common forms of women' s urban work, in order to see how women 's identities are based on sexual reputations, which play out in association with issues of credit, the gaze, spectacle, theatricality, and movements across the city.; This project will examine the popular culture of early modern London to see what ideology has to show us about women's work and attitudes about women in and on the market. By examining the language of consumption and sexuality that intertwines all images of women in the workplace, I will show the constraints within which real women worked in early modern London. But, beyond this historical investment, the project more broadly demonstrates the ways in which the imagination of women working, the fictional representation of women at work, served not only as a mimetic representation of actual women working in early modern England; it also,more potently, reveals the symbolic position held by women during a period of transition and anxiety. Representing working women offered a means for thinking through issues of change. Thus fictional women function both mimetically and symbolically, both mirroring their real life counterparts and signifying broader concerns. Early modern London was undergoing cultural changes related to capitalism, class, national identity, and religion. Women in the popular literature of the time became the battleground upon which ideological changes were fought;representations of working women, because of the way production, consumption, and reproduction were linked, particularly bore the brunt of these ideological battles. |
| Keyword | women and work; renaissance London; early modern history; occupations; gender studies |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | London |
| Coverage date | 1500/1800 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1350 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Keeline, Kimberlee Diane |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Keeline-20080721 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Keeline-20080721.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | MARKETING WOMEN: REPRESENTATIONS OF WORKING WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN LONDON by Kimberlee Diane Keeline A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Kimberlee Diane Keeline |
