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Record Number:
8615
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Harris , Barbara J.
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Title:
Property, Power, and Personal Relations: Elite Mothers and Sons in Yorkist and Early Tudor England [Women were often marginalized by patriarchal power structures that placed the father at the head of the family, but the birth of a son often elevated the wife’s position. Since the first son was greatly valued in a system of primogenitural inheritance, noble mothers often had close emotional ties to their sons. The political and social future of the family often rested on the mother’s ability to manage the household, display the family’s wealth and status, and negotiate marriages and other alliances for the family’s children. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
(Full Text via JSTOR) 15, 3 (Spring 1990): 606-632.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
(Full Text via JSTOR) 15, 3 (Spring 1990): 606-632.
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Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
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Emotions
Family
Households
Inheritance
Interpersonal Relationships
Mothers
Nobility
Noble Men
Noble Women
Patriarchy
Power
Primogeniture
Property
Social Class
Social Groups
Social History
Social Networks
Social Roles
Sons
Women in Active Roles
Wives
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
15- 16
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Author's Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1990.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
00979740
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