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Abstract
This article traces the strategies that women deployed, and the resources upon which they drew, in order to challenge the East India Company (EIC) and ultimately lay claim to property that they believed was rightfully theirs. It focuses on three women, Elizabeth Dale, Rebecka Duteil and Mary Goodal, who navigated the EIC, parliament and the courts in seventeenth-century London to try to secure their inheritance from husbands and siblings. It offers a fresh perspective on early modern women's public lives by focusing on a wide array of agentic strategies that women employed in their encounters with various institutions. Using a range of sources, including company records, petitions, court depositions and wills, it argues that exploring women's interactions with the EIC, especially in their role as adversaries, enriches understandings of women's agency in early modern England. This article suggests that such a lens can further nuance how we understand the inherent tensions of early modern women's public lives: as inflected by global as well as local contexts and shaped by conflict as well as collaboration.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Gender and History |
Vol/bind | 33 |
Udgave nummer | 1 |
Sider (fra-til) | 3-23 |
Antal sider | 21 |
ISSN | 0953-5233 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 5 mar. 2021 |
Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
Aktiviteter
- 1 Organisation af og deltagelse i konference
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European Business History Association Annual Congress 2019
Laursen Brock, A. (Taler)
29 aug. 2019 → 31 aug. 2019Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangering af en begivenhed › Organisation af og deltagelse i konference
Projekter
- 1 Afsluttet
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WOMEN AND THE COMPANY: FEMALE AGENCY IN GLOBAL TRADING COMPANIES, 1600-1800
Laursen Brock, A. (PI)
01/09/2018 → 31/05/2021
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning