Women writers and the early modern British political tradition / edited by Hilda L. Smith.
1998
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Women writers and the early modern British political tradition / edited by Hilda L. Smith.
Created/published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description
xiv, 392 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Smith, Hilda L., 1941-
Folger Institute.
Folger Institute.
Note
"Published in association with the Folger Institute, Washington, D.C."
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : women, intellect, and politics, their intersection in seventeenth-century England / Hilda L. Smith
Christine de Pizan and the origins of peace theory / Berenice A. Carroll
Political thought/political action : Margaret Cavendish's Hobbesian dilemma / Anna Battigelli
Women's public political voice in England : 1640-1740 / Lois G. Schwoerer
Contextualizing Aphra Behn : plays, politics, and party, 1679-1989 / Melinda Zook
Astell, Masham, and Locke : religion and politics / Patricia Springborg
The politics of sense and sensibility : Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay Graham on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the revolution in France / Wendy Gunther-Canada
Mary Wollstonecraft on sensibility, women's rights, and patriarchal power / Mary Lyndon Shanley
Emilie du Chatelet : genius, gender, and intellectual authority / Judith P. Zinsser
Contract and coercion : power and gender in Leviathan / Jane S. Jaquette
The significant sounds of silence : the absence of women from the political thought of Sir Robert Filmer and John Locke / Gordon Schochet
Catharine Macaulay : patriot historian / J.G.A. Pocock
Investments, votes, and 'bribes' : women as shareholders in the chartered national companies / Susan Staves
The politics of identity and monarchic government in France / Sarah Hanley
The Holy Roman Empire : women and politics beyond liberalism, individual rights, and revolutionary theory / Merry Wiesner
Women as sextons and electors : King's Bench and precedents for women's citizenship / Hilda L. Smith
'To be some body' : married and The hardships of the English laws / Barbara J. Todd
Conclusion : women's writing, women's standing, theory and politics in the early modern period / Carole Pateman.
Christine de Pizan and the origins of peace theory / Berenice A. Carroll
Political thought/political action : Margaret Cavendish's Hobbesian dilemma / Anna Battigelli
Women's public political voice in England : 1640-1740 / Lois G. Schwoerer
Contextualizing Aphra Behn : plays, politics, and party, 1679-1989 / Melinda Zook
Astell, Masham, and Locke : religion and politics / Patricia Springborg
The politics of sense and sensibility : Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay Graham on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the revolution in France / Wendy Gunther-Canada
Mary Wollstonecraft on sensibility, women's rights, and patriarchal power / Mary Lyndon Shanley
Emilie du Chatelet : genius, gender, and intellectual authority / Judith P. Zinsser
Contract and coercion : power and gender in Leviathan / Jane S. Jaquette
The significant sounds of silence : the absence of women from the political thought of Sir Robert Filmer and John Locke / Gordon Schochet
Catharine Macaulay : patriot historian / J.G.A. Pocock
Investments, votes, and 'bribes' : women as shareholders in the chartered national companies / Susan Staves
The politics of identity and monarchic government in France / Sarah Hanley
The Holy Roman Empire : women and politics beyond liberalism, individual rights, and revolutionary theory / Merry Wiesner
Women as sextons and electors : King's Bench and precedents for women's citizenship / Hilda L. Smith
'To be some body' : married and The hardships of the English laws / Barbara J. Todd
Conclusion : women's writing, women's standing, theory and politics in the early modern period / Carole Pateman.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.
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PR428.P6 W66 1998