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“In this innovative study, Derval Conroy documents and analyzes the political debate concerning female governance in seventeenth-century France. … Ruling Women, written in an engaging and accessible style, present scholars, teachers, and students alike with a formidable resource to explore representations of queenship in seventeenth-century France. With this work Conroy makes an invaluable contribution to the study of women and gender issues in early modern Europe.” (Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1), 2017)
'Ruling Women offers a comprehensive account of early modern debates in favor of and in opposition to gynæcocracy, illuminatingly connecting them with more general discussions of princely virtue. With impressive scholarship […] it enriches our understanding of seventeenth-century debates and brings into focus important connections between the concepts of authority, power, and virtue, making an important addition to scholarly understanding of the history of gender equality.'-Karen Green, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia
'In this fascinating and original study, Conroy investigates the intellectual history of the exclusion of women from the French throne. She brilliantly shows how seventeenth-century feminist authors exposed the contradictions of their opponents and demonstrated that the intellectual and moral virtues required for governing were "of both sexes". A must-read for everyone interested in the politics of gender.'
-Siep Stuurman, Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Book Title: Ruling Women, Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Government, Virtue, and the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century France
Authors: Derval Conroy
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137568496
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56797-0Published: 17 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57165-9Published: 05 June 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56849-6Published: 28 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 229
Topics: Gender Studies, History of France, Political History, Social History, Modern History, History of Early Modern Europe