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Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Contextualising Early-Modern Women -- Woman: Intellectual Foundations -- Introduction -- Christian and classical ideas -- The female sex -- Sexuality, menstruation and illness -- Fertility, maternity and lactation -- Conclusion -- Querelle des Femmes -- Introduction -- Satires and the dualistic woman, 1500-1580 -- Jane Anger and the Swetnam controversy, 1580-1640 -- Querelle des femmes: 1640-1700 -- Conclusion -- Femininity: Prescription, Rhetoric and Context -- Introduction -- Prescription -- The double sexual standard -- Marriage, vocation and occupation -- Rhetoric and context -- Conclusion -- Law and Private Life -- Introduction -- The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights -- Courtship, marriage and divorce -- Reproduction and production -- Property -- Crime -- Witchcraft -- Conclusion -- Politics -- Introduction -- Gender and politics in the early Tudor state -- Female rule 1553-1603: Mary I and Elizabeth I -- Early Stuart patriarchal political thought -- Queen's consort: Anne of Denmark and Henrietta Maria -- Queens, mistresses and coffee houses 1660-1700 -- Conclusion -- Religion and Civil War -- Introduction -- Gender and Reformation historiography -- Catholicism -- Protestantism and puritanism -- Godly motherhood and prophecy -- Civil war and God's providence -- Religion and gender after 1660 -- Conclusion -- Education and Women's Writing -- Introduction -- Humanist women 1500-1560 -- Renaissance women writers -- Margaret Cavendish and the secular writers -- Aphra Behn and the playwrights -- Mary Astell and the feminists -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Femininity Transformed -- Notes -- Index. |
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