Title When gossips meet : women, family, and neighbourhood in early modern England / Bernard Capp.

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Description	1 online resource (vi, 398 pages).
	text file
Series	Oxford studies in social history.
	Oxford studies in social history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-385) and index.
Contents	Patriarchy and the World of Gossips -- Families and Gossips: The Experience of Marriage -- Maidservants and the Politics of the Household -- Women and Neighbours: Female Disputes -- Women and Neighbours: Disputes with Men -- Women as Citizens: Public and Political Life -- Recreation, Religion, and Female Culture.
Summary	Aimed at social and cultural historians, this is an exploration of how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early Modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture. It focuses on the networks of close friends ('gossips') which gave them a social identity beyond the narrowly domestic.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Chronological Term	1450-1600
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Capp, B.S. When gossips meet. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 0199255989 (DLC) 2003544504 (OCoLC)51272232
ISBN	9780191555084 (electronic book)
	0191555088 (electronic book)
	0199273197 (Paper)
	0199255989