{"product_id":"shakespeares-domestic-economies-natasha-korda-9780812236637","title":"Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare's Domestic Economies\u003c\/i\u003e explores representations of female subjectivity in Shakespearean drama from a refreshingly new perspective, situating \u003ci\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merry Wives of Windsor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to early modern England's nascent consumer culture and competing conceptions of property. Drawing evidence from legal documents, economic treatises, domestic manuals, marriage sermons, household inventories, and wills to explore the realities and dramatic representations of women's domestic roles, Natasha Korda departs from traditional accounts of the commodification of women, which maintain that throughout history women have been \"trafficked\" as passive objects of exchange between men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early modern period, Korda demonstrates, as newly available market goods began to infiltrate households at every level of society, women emerged as never before as the \"keepers\" of household properties. With the rise of consumer culture, she contends, the housewife's managerial function assumed a new form, becoming increasingly centered around caring for the objects of everyday life--objects she was charged with keeping as if they were her own, in spite of the legal strictures governing women's property rights. Korda deftly shows how their positions in a complex and changing social formation allowed women to exert considerable control within the household domain, and in some areas to thwart the rule of fathers and husbands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natasha Korda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812236637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812236637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2003 pg. 984","brand":"Natasha Korda","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43947278663935,"sku":"9780812236637","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4faf77a5-23fd-444d-a9c1-937ec68ac689.jpg?v=1681517772","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeares-domestic-economies-natasha-korda-9780812236637","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}