WOMEN AND AGEING IN BRITISH SOCIETY SINCE 1500
WOMEN AND MEN IN HISTORY
This series, publishrd for students. scholars and interested general readers, will tackle themes in gender histoiy from the early medieval period through to the present day. Gender issues are now an integral part of all history courses and yet many traditional texts do not relied this change. Much exciting work is now being done to redress the gender imbalances of the past, and we hope that these books will make their own substantial contribution to that process. We hope that these will both synthesize and shape future developments in gender studies.
The Cenetal Editors of the series are Patricia Skinner (University of Southampton) for the medieval period; Pamela Sharpe (Cniversity of Bristol) for the early modern period; and Penny Summerfield (University of Lancaster) for the modem period, Margaret Walsh (University of Nottingham) was the Founding Editor of the series.
Published books:
Imperial Women in Byzantium. 10251204: Power, Patronage and Ideology
Baibara Hill
Masculinity in Medieval Eurupe
D.M. Hadley (ed.)
Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy
Judith C. Bracn and Robert C. Dacis (eds)
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sandra Canallo and Lyndan Warner (eds)
Gender, Church and State in Early Modem Germany. Essays by Merry E. Wiesner
Merry E. Wusner
Manbood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage
Elizabeth W. Fayster
English Masculinities, 16001800
Tim Hitcheeck and Michele Cohen (eds)
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution in the Metropolis, 17301830
Tony Henderson
Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 17601860
Rath Watts
Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress. 17901930
Maty Hilton and Pam Hinth (eds)
Women and Woik in Russia, 18801930: A Study in Continuity through Change
Fane McDermid and Anna Hityar
More than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Industries 19001950
Clare Wightman
Women in British Public Life, 19141950; Cender, Power ami Social Policy
Helen Fones
The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy, 18301960
Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolitle, Janet Fink and Katherint Holden
Women and the Second World War in France, 19391948: Choices and Constraints
Hanna Diamond
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Women and ageing in British society since 1500 / edited by Lynn Botelho and Pat Thane.
p. cm.(Women and men in histrory)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-582-32901-9ISBN 0-582-32902-7 (pbk.)
1. Aged womenGreat BritainHistory. 2. Old ageGreat BritainHistory. 3. AgingSocial aspectsGreat BritainHistory. I. Botelho, L. A. (Lynn A.) II. Thane, Pat. III. Series.
HQJ064.G7W66 2000
Typeset by 35 in 11/13pt Baskerville MT
CONTENTS
Lynn Botelho and Pat Thane
Claire S. Sehen
Margaret Pelling
Lynn Botelho
Anne Kugler
Amy M. Froide
Susannah Ottaway
Richard Wall
Theresa Deane
Stephen Hussey
Pat Thane
LYNN BOTELHO is assistant professor of history at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is editing (with Susannah Ottaway and Katharine Kittredge) Aging in Pre-industrial Societies (Westport, CT, forthcoming), and is the editor of The Churchwardens Accounts of Cratfield, Suffolk, during the 1640s and 1650s (Bury St Edmunds, 1999). She also has published articles on issues of ageing in early modern England. She is currently completing a manuscript on provisions for the elderly in early modern England.
THERESA DEANE is a DPhil student at the University of Sussex where she is completing her thesis, The professionalisation of philanthropy: the case of Louisa Twining 18201912. She has contributed to Gender, Health and Welfare (London, 1996, eds Anne Digby and John Stewart) and the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, forthcoming). She is also a trained nurse and is experienced in caring for older people both in institutions and in the community.
AMY M. FRO IDE is assistant professor of history at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She recently co-edited with Judith M. Bennett Singlewomen in the European Past (Philadelphia, 1998). Froide is currently a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago where she is working on a manuscript entitled Singlewomen and the Meanings of Singleness in Early Modern England.
STEPHEN HUSSEY is Research Associate, School of Education, University of Cambridge. He has published articles on popular custom, womens agricultural employment, work and unemployment, and the use of oral history in television. He has also co-edited a collection of essays with Anthony Fletcher, Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State (Manchester, 1999). His current project is a book on the rural working-class household in the early twentieth century.
ANNE KUGLER is assistant professor of history at John Carroll University. She is the author of Errant Plagiary and its Uses: The Writing Life and Social Milieu of Lady Sarah Cowper (16441720) (Stanford, GA, forthcoming). She is also editor of the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper and writes on women, religion and self-fashioning in the early eighteenth century.
