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Autore |
Hughes Ann <1951-, > |
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Titolo |
Gender and the English revolution / / Ann Hughes |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c2012 |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-64248-X |
1-283-45983-3 |
9786613459831 |
1-136-64249-8 |
0-203-80470-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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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 |
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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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 politics -- Women, 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 |
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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 |
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