A history of women's political thought in Europe, 1400-1700 / Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broad, Jacqueline.

Contributor:

Green, Karen, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Europe--History.

Political science.

Women.

History.

Europe.

Women--Political activity--Europe--History.

Women--Political activity.

Women--Europe--Attitudes--History.

Europe--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women's ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of political organisation, justifications of obedience and resistance, and concepts of liberty, toleration, sociability, equality and self-preservation. Women's ideas concerning relations between the sexes are discussed in tandem with their broader political outlooks; and the authors demonstrate that the development of a distinctively sexual politics is reflected in women's critiques of marriage, the double standard and women's exclusion from government. Women writers are also shown to be indebted to the ancient idea of political virtue, and to be acutely aware of being part of a long tradition of female political commentary. This work will be of tremendous interest to political philosophers, historians of ideas, and feminist scholars alike.

Contents:

Christine de Pizan

Women of the Italian renaissance

From Anne de Beaujeu to Marguerite de Navarre

Queen Elizabeth I of England

From the Reformation to Marie le Jars de Gournay

Women of the English civil war era

Quaker women

The Fronde and Madeleine de Scudéry

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

Women of the Glorious Revolution

Women of late seventeenth-century France

Mary Astell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-326) and index.

ISBN:

9780521888172

0521888174

OCLC:

233543927