Description
Book SynopsisIdeas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. This book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested.
Trade Review'This project represents a significant, original and challenging contribution to several fields. It builds on the author's earlier published work and that of cultural and political historians of the period to present the first thorough study of gendered politics in early modern England. The academic audience for this book should be wide. It will be read by historians across a wide range of specialisms and by scholars of political thought: to both fields it brings a valuable new perspective.' Dr. Laura Gowing
Table of ContentsPart I: The family in political writing during the exclusion crisis
1. Patriarchalism, politics and the family
2. Four Whig political writers
Part II: The Revolution of 1688 and the politics of gender
3. The politics of legitimacy: women and the warming pan scandal
4. 'Strange paradox of power': images of Mary II
5. The politics of divorce
6. Mary Astell: The marriage of Toryism and Feminism
Part III: Women and political life in the age of Anne
7. 'Queens are but women': images of Queen Anne
8. Sarah Churchill; or virtue unrewarded
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