Enterprising widows and active wives: women's unpaid work in the household economy of early modern England

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Mortality of older widows and wives.

'Mortality of Older Widows and Wives *that the excess mortality experienced by widows relative Estimates of future costs of the Social Security program depend in part on population projections. The mortality rates now used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to " age " the current population are specific to three factors-age, sex, and marital status-and are derived from the national vit...

Home-Rebels and House-Traitors: Murderous Wives in Early Modern England

The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England

Starting in around 1530, Craig Muldrew argues in this important, phenomenally good book, the English economy developed rapidly. Population growth fed commercialization; markets developed and embedded; people did not just grow and make things, they bought and sold, bargained and trucked. Yet there were few actual coins. Money was scarce, and as the economy expanded faster than the supply of prec...