Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth /

Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth /

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Author / Creator:	Becker, Anna K., 1978- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
Description:	viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Ideas in context Ideas in context.
Subject:	Sex role -- Europe -- History. Renaissance Renaissance. Sex role. Europe. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12006264

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ISBN:	9781108487054 110848705X 9781108732130 1108732135
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna K. Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns"--

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