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Ruling Women

Part of the Queenship and Power Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137568496

ISBN: 978-1-349-57165-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 5, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Conroy, Derval

Pages: 1 –14

[In 1521, the Italian philosopher Agostino Nifo (1473–1538) published his Libellus de his quae ab optimis principibus agenda sunt. In this traditional “mirror for princes” text, Nifo examines the qualities he believes a good ruler should possess, and devotes a chapter each to prudence, justice,...
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Chapter 2The Dynamics of Exclusion: “Salic Law” and Constructions of Masculine Monarchy

Conroy, Derval

Pages: 15 –44

[The series of events that led to the definitive exclusion of women from the French throne, played out in the short years between 1316 and 1328, provide an extraordinary example of the arbitrary nature of history, whose peripeteia gain enormously in significance retrospectively. Although...
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Chapter 3Government by Women in Early Modern “Galleries” of Women

Conroy, Derval

Pages: 45 –81

[It is well known that gynæcocracy is one of the three key themes, together with education and marriage, debated in the large body of texts loosely and problematically grouped together under the rubric la querelle des femmes.1 The early auspicious years of the regency of Anne of Austria saw a...
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Chapter 4Engendering Equality: Gynæcocracy in Gournay, Poulain de la Barre, and Suchon

Conroy, Derval

Pages: 83 –118

[In certain sixteenth-century pro-woman texts, such as those by Agrippa and Billon, the defense of theological, moral, and intellectual equality between the sexes is not uncommon, unsurprisingly in works that also question and criticize the putative exclusion of women from political authority, or...

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