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Ruling Women, Volume 1 - Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Ruling Women, Volume 1 - Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Queenship and Power
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Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis
of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century
France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic
texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse
which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with
alternative discourses which frame gynaecocracy as a feasible, and
laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly or unwittingly)
the normative paradigm of male authority. Central to the argument
is an analysis of how the discourse which constructs government as
a male prerogative quite simply implodes when juxtaposed with the
traditional political discourse of virtue ethics. In Government,
Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France, the
first volume of the two-volume study, the author examines the
dominant discourse which excludes women from political authority
before turning to the configuration of women and rulership in the
pro-woman and egalitarian discourses of the period. Highly readable
and engaging, Conroy's work will appeal to those interested in the
history of women in political thought and the history of feminism,
in addition to scholars of seventeenth-century literature and
history of ideas.
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