Ruling Women, Volume 1: Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France

by Derval Conroy

Book Overview

Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds patriarchy at the time is frequently in conflict with alternative discourses which frame gyn cocracy as a feasible, and laudable reality, and which reconfigure (wittingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113756797X
• ISBN13: 9781137567970
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"