Ruling women /

"This book, the first of two volumes, 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 and feminist texts, it sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse which upholds p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Conroy, Derval (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Series:	Queenship and power.
Subjects:	Queens > France > History > 17th century. Princesses > France > History > 17th century. Women > Political activity > France > History > 17th century. Sex role > Political aspects > France > History > 17th century. Matriarchy > Political aspects > France > History > 17th century. Virtue > Political aspects > France > History > 17th century. Monarchy > France > History > 17th century. Power (Social sciences) > France > History > 17th century. France > Politics and government > 17th century. French drama > 17th century > History and criticism. Queens in literature. Princesses in literature. Women in literature. HISTORY > Europe > France. HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century. HISTORY > Social History.

Table of Contents:

volume 1. Government, virtue, and the female prince in seventeenth-century France
volume 2. Configuring the female prince in seventeenth-century French drama.
Volume 1: The dynamics of exclusion : "Salic Law" and constructions of masculine monarchy
Government by women in early modern "Galleries" of women
Engendering equality : Gynæcocracy in Gournay, Poullain de la Barre, and Suchon
Appendix: Biographical notes on women rulers.
Volume 2: The power and the fury, or the Politics of representation in drama
The drama of gender struggle : androgyny and female government
Dramatizing the female prince : virtue, statecraft, and virginal wives
Appendix: Table of principal plays analyzed.