Download or read book Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household written by Jane Whittle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid reconstruction of life in a seventeenth-century gentry household, the authors delve into the details of everyday life: how did a large, wealthy household in the English countryside acquire the goods and services it needed and wanted? Was household consumption an exclusively female sphere, or did men play an important role, too?