Title Women writers and the early modern British political tradition / edited by Hilda L. Smith.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PR428.P6 W66 1998 1998	Available	---

Description	xiv, 392 pages ; 24 cm
Note	"Published in association with the Folger Institute, Washington, D.C."
Bibliography	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, 1679-1689 / Melinda Zook -- Astell, Masham, and Locke : religion and politics / Patricia Springborg -- 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 Châtelet : genius, gender, and intellectual authority / Judith P. Zinsser -- Contract and coercion : power and gender in Leviathan / Jane S. Jaquette -- Significant sounds of silence : the absence of women from the political thought of Sir Robert Filmer and John Locke (or, "why can't a woman be more like a man?") / Gordon Schochet -- Catharine Macaulay : patriot historian / J.G.A. Pocock -- Investments, votes, and "bribes" : women as shareholders in the chartered national companies / Susan Staves -- Politics of identity and monarchic government in France : the debate over female exclusion / Sarah Hanley -- 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 women 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.
Subject	English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
	Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
	Politics and literature.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	16th century
Subject	Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term	17th century
Subject	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English literature -- Women authors.
	Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1485-1603
Subject	Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714.
Chronological Term	1603-1714
Subject	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
	Women and literature.
	Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History.
	Women -- Political activity.
	Political science -- Great Britain -- History.
	Political science.
	English literature -- Political aspects.
	English literature -- Political aspects.
	Women.
	Womyn.
	Political science -- History.
	Women political scientists -- Great Britain.
	Women in politics -- Great Britain -- History.
	Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
	Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Added Author	Smith, Hilda L., 1941-
	Folger Institute.
ISBN	0521585090

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