Gender and the English Revolution

by Ann L. Hughes and Ann Hughes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415214912
• ISBN13: 9780415214919
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"