WOMEN WRITERS AND THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH POLITICAL TRADITION by Hilda L. Smith (Editor) ( 9780511558580 )

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WOMEN WRITERS AND THE EARLY MODERN BRITISH POLITICAL TRADITION

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0511558589

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9780511558580

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 August, 2010

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Essays on women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft, 1500-1800.

Synopsis:

This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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