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Gender and the English revolution / / Ann Hughes



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Autore: Hughes Ann <1951-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender and the English revolution / / Ann Hughes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
Disciplina: 305.420941
Soggetto topico: Women - Great Britain - Social conditions
Sex role - Great Britain - History - 17th century
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
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ISBN: 1-283-45983-3
9786613459831
1-136-64249-8
0-203-80470-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461533903321
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