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Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230605524, 9780230605527
Open Library ID
OL10194880M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
955 kB (978414 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
276\277
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Queens, acting in their own right, and female regents, acting on behalf of their male relatives, governed much of Western Europe. Yet even as women ruled—and ruled effectively—their right to do so was hotly contested.  Men’s voices have long dominated this debate, but the recovery of texts by women now allows their voices, long silenced, to be heard once again. Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe is a study of texts and textual production in the construction of gender, society, and politics in the early modern period. Jansen explores the “gynecocracy” debate and the larger humanist response to the challenge posed by female sovereignty.

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