Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680-1714 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain) [Hardcover]

Rachel Weil (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0719056225 | ISBN-13: 978-0719056222 | Publication Date: March 16, 2000

Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Rejecting both the Whig narrative that ties Lockeian contract theory to "affective individualism," and the recently fashionable claim that liberalism expelled women from the "public sphere," Rachel Weil shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested. Using sources that range from high political theory to scurrilous lampoons, she considers public debates about succession, resistance and divorce.

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Review

The author successfully shows how intellectual and political history informed by culture can invigorate both of these subdisciplines by posing new questions about the relationship among politics, gender, sexuality, patriarchy, and the family. Choice

About the Author

Rachel Weil is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Manchester University Press (March 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719056225
• ISBN-13: 978-0719056222
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,034,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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