Political Rhetoric Power and Renaissance Women

<p><b>Deals with women in political power during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Anne Boleyn Elizabeth I Catherine de Medici Mary II) and about the gender-based stereotypes that were produced rhetorically about them.</b></p><p>The authors examine the political rhetoric of a number of powerful women of the Renaissance male responses to this rhetoric drama and fiction by both male and female authors considering women and political context and how historians-then and now-have evaluated powerful women.</p><p>A multi-disciplinary collection the book includes an essay about Christine de Pizan and her fifteenth-century look at powerful women an examination of seventeeth-century rhetoricians and how they viewed and reshaped the Renaissance in terms of giving power to women and examples of English and French women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.</p><p>The afterword contextualizes these examples and raises questions about modern issues. The book provides a greater understanding of gender and power in the Renaissance as well as insights into the contemporary age.</p>