Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 Daybell Professor James
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 Daybell Professor James Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across…
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Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 Daybell Professor James
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. It demonstrates how underlying structures could enable or constrain political action, and how political power and influence could be exercised through social and cultural practices. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted 'politics' and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture.
The book is divided into four parts - diplomacy, gifts and the politics of exchange; socio-economic structures; gendered politics at court; and voting and political representations - each of which looks at a series of interrelated themes exploring the ways in which political culture is inflected by questions of