![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than isolate gender as a variable, this book examines how it relates to other social cleavages. Defining how a group or an individual should be labelled, means variables such as social status, gender, or age, are prioritized. In this book, Cordelia Beattie views classification as a political act, an act of those classifying must make choices about which divisions are most important or about who falls into which category, and such choices have repercussions. ![]() Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories "maiden" and "widow" so culturally significant in late medieval England that "single woman" was a residual category for women seen as anomalous? Was the category "single man" used in an equivalent way and, if not, why? This study offers a way into the complex process of social classification in late medieval England.Īll societies use classifications in order to understand and impose order. The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. ![]()
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