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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461533903321

Autore

Hughes Ann <1951-, >

Titolo

Gender and the English revolution / / Ann Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-45983-3

9786613459831

1-136-64249-8

0-203-80470-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

305.420941

Soggetti

Women - Great Britain - Social conditions

Sex role - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gender and the English Revolution; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Gender, power and politics in early modern England; 2 Women and war; Some contexts; Women at war; A 'soliciting temper': women and survival strategies; 'Brave feminine spirits': women and politics; 'Christ hath purchased us at as dear a rate as he hath done men': parliamentarian petitioners; Royalist women; Religion; 3 Manhood and civil war; Roundheads and Cavaliers; Thinking with women; Inadequate men; Radical masculinities; An uxorious king; England without a king

4 Bodies, families, sex: using gender, imagining politicsWomen, politics, sex; Bodies and the body politic; Women, family and political change; The state and the household: the public and private; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts of masculinity and femininity were called into question by the war and the trial and execution of an anointed King. Ann Hughes



combines discussion of the activities of women in the religious and political upheavals of the revolution, with a pioneering analysis of how male political identities were fractured by civil war. Traditional parallels and analogies between marriage, the fami