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Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe
Sharon L. Jansen
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Description for Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe
hardcover. This book explores the resulting 'gynecocracy' debate and the larger humanist response to the challenge posed by female sovereignty. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 503.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230605527
SKU
V9780230605527
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About Sharon L. Jansen
Sharon L. Jansen is the author of Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter (2004), The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms to Henry VIII (St. Martin's Press, 1996).
Reviews for Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe
"An important and interesting contribution to the history of women. Jansen has woven together an amazing number of sources and offers a concise discussion of the controversy surrounding female rule in the sixteenth century." - Shawndra L. Holderby, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania