In Tudor and Stuart Britain, women writers were shaped by their culture, but they also helped to shape and reproduce culture through their writing, their patronage and their network of family and friends. Although they submitted to the cultural constraints of femininity, women helped to fashion gender roles. Denied positions of power in government - with the exception of queens - women sought to influence their society's politics through their writings and personal relationships. Through the lens of cultural studies, the editors explore women's material culture, women as agents in reproducing culture, popular culture and women's pamphlets, and women's bodies as inscriptions of culture. As the only collection on early modern British women's writing to draw primarily on feminist cultural studies, this book covers new ground, especially in the scope and breadth of the authors surveyed. In addition to essays by the editors on Mary Queen of Scots, poetry and gift exchange, Lady mary Wroth's anti-absolutist sonnets, and Elizabeth Cary's portrait of the queen in Edward II, the book includes Margaret Hannay on class in Pembroke's psalms, Mary Ellen Lamb on Aemilia Lanyer and patronage, Elaine Beilin on Anne Dowriche's Protestant history, Barbara McManus on the pamphlet controversy about women, and Carole Levin on the assimilation of female saints into reformation England.
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I'm grateful for this book, that's both scholarly and easily read by the non-scholar. We haven't heard enough from the women of this period, and these authors help us understand better who these women were and why we want to know them.
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Great scholarship!,
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All of the chapters in this book are very well researched and scholarly. I particularly enjoyed the "Tutoring the Tudors" chapter by Kathi Vosevich. Her research brings to life the differences in the political rhetoric of Queens Mary and Elizabeth Tudor.
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