Gender and Space in Early Modern England

A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England.

Space was not simply a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining the hierarchy that sustained social and gender order in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Gender had a considerable influence on its use and organization; status and gender were displayed physically and spatially every ...