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Ruling Women, Volume 2 - Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Ruling Women, Volume 2 - Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Queenship and Power
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Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the
conflicting discourses concerning government by women in
seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the
Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes
over 30 plays published between 1637 and 1691, examining the range
of constructions of queenship that are thrown into relief. The
analysis focuses on the ways in which certain texts strive to
manage the cultural anxiety produced by female rule and facilitate
the diminution of the uneasy cultural reality it represents, while
others dramatize the exercise of political virtue by women, explode
the myth of gender-differentiated sexual ethics, and suggest
alternative constructions of gender relations to those upheld by
the normative discourses of sexual difference. The approach is
underpinned by an understanding of theatre as fundamentally
political, a cultural institution implicated in the maintenance of,
and challenge to, societal power relations. Innovative and
stimulating, Conroy's work will appeal to scholars of
seventeenth-century drama and history of ideas, in addition to
those interested in the history of women in political thought and
the history of feminism.
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