| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.2

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Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. By Alexandra Shepard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii plus 292 pp. $99.00).

In this richly detailed book, Alexandra Shepard surveys the many ways that gender interacted with other status distinctions in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She suggests that the "period between 1560 and 1640 was part of a long-tern shift in the relationship between patriarchal, anti-patriarchal, and alternative concepts of manhood and the groups of men with which these conflicting codes were associated" (p. 253). Shepard acknowledges the importance of gender difference, that manhood was an estate that conferred privilege to those who held its status, and that there was no comparable estate for women. That said, she argues quite forcefully for a reexamination of the concept of "patriarchy" in early modern society, arguing that differences among men were, at certain times and in certain contexts, far more significant than differences between men and women generally.

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