The English Revolution and Gender Author:Ann Hughes From the most important feminist scholar of early modern Britain in the UK, this is a fascinating and unique examination of how the experience of the civil wars in England changed both role and conception of women and men in politics, society and culture. The English Revolution and Gender examines:
the activities of wome... more »n in the religious and political upheavals of the revolution
the impact of the civil war on gendered thinking about politics
the parallels and analogies between marriage, the family and the ‘state’
the ways in which notions of manliness, effeminacy and womanliness were deployed in political debate.
With no other book on gender or women’s experiences of the English Civil War – an area dominated by a military history approach - this will be an essential part of any course on women’s history, feminism or British history.« less