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Autore |
Hughes Ann <1951-, > |
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Titolo |
Gender and the English revolution / / Ann Hughes |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-45983-3 |
9786613459831 |
1-136-64249-8 |
0-203-80470-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Great Britain - Social conditions |
Sex role - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
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Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 |
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