Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance

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S. P. Cerasano, Marion Wynne-Davies
Wayne State University Press, 1992 - History - 234 pages
Ten feminist-materialist explorations of the oppression of women in England from the early Renaissance to the 1650s, draw on women's place in courtesy books, royal office, drama, and other social, political, and literary arenas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 

Contents

Penelope and the Politics of Womans Place in
25
Autobiographical Texts
47
Queen Elizabeth in Her Speeches
63
Renaissance Women and
79
The Maternal Subtext
105
Chez Petruchio Percy and Plantagenet
129
Half a Dozen Dangerous Words
167
Responses
205
Index
228
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