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Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics
in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and
patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons.
It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and
influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate
women excluded from formal, male-dominated state institutions. The
chapters embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches:
historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic and gender based.
They deal with a variety of issues related to female intervention
within political spheres, including women's rhetorical, persuasive
and communicative skills; the production by women of a range of
texts that can be termed 'political'; the politicization of
marital, family and kinship networks; and female involvement in
patronage and court politics. Women and Politics in Early Modern
England, 1450-700 also looks at ways in which images of female
power and authority were represented within canonical texts, such
as Shakespeare's plays and Milton's epic poetry. The volume extends
the range of areas and texts for the study of women, gender and
politics, and locates women's political, social and cultural
activities within the contexts of the family, locality and wider
national stage. It argues for a blurring of the boundaries between
the traditional categories of the 'public' and the 'private,' the
'domestic' and the 'political'; and enhances our understanding of
the ways in which women exerted political force through informal,
intimate and personal, as well as more official, and formal
channels of power. As a whole the book makes an important
contribution to the reassessment of early modern politics from the
perspective of women.
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