Strategic Imaginations

Anke Gilleir • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is of course not to say that there never were women sovereigns. In-depth studies of women sovereigns have grown considerably in number in the past three decades and have added substantially to our understanding of the complexities of their rule of power. Yet what is often obscured by such in-depth analyses is the fact that all women rulers throughout the entirety of European cultural history have had to operate in a context that could not think of power as female – except in grotesque terms. This continuity, as this book demonstrates, can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule comparatively and in the longue durée. This collection of essays brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modern democracy. It demonstrates how the strategies and imagination women rulers adopted against the backdrop of an all-pervasive scepticism toward female rule are comparable across regions and periods. To illustrate its point, this book not only addresses historical figures and queens, but also takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history.
  
  What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is of course not to say that there never were women sovereigns. In-depth studies of women sovereigns have grown considerably in number in the past three decades and have added substantially to our understanding of the complexities of their rule of power. Yet what is often obscured by such in-depth analyses is the fact that all women rulers throughout the entirety of European cultural history have had to operate in a context that could not think of power as female – except in grotesque terms. This continuity, as this book demonstrates, can only be brought out by studying women’s political rule comparatively and in the longue durée. This collection of essays brings together studies of female sovereignty from the Polish-Lithuanian to the British Commonwealth, and from the Middle Ages to the dawn of modern democracy. It demonstrates how the strategies and imagination women rulers adopted against the backdrop of an all-pervasive scepticism toward female rule are comparable across regions and periods. To illustrate its point, this book not only addresses historical figures and queens, but also takes stock of the rich yet unsettling imagination of female rule in philosophy, literature and art history.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 157mm x 234mm
  Aantal pagina's : 313
  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789462702479
  Datum publicatie : 01-2021
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  ON GENDER, SOVEREIGNTY AND IMAGINATION An Introduction Anke Gilleir PART 1: REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE SOVEREIGNTY CAMILLA AND CANDACIS Literary Imaginations of Female Sovereignty in German Romances of the Late Twelfth Century Ann-Kathrin Deininger and Jasmin Leuchtenberg ROYAL HOUSEWIVES AND FEMALE TYRANTS Gender and Sovereignty in Works by Benedikte Naubert and Luise Mühlbach Elisabeth Krimmer OF MAIDENS AND VIRGINS, OR, SPARKING MILITARY ALLIANCE The Affective Politics of the Pristine Female Body Maha El Hissy RELATIONAL AUTHORITY AND FEMALE SOVEREIGNTY Fanny Burney’s Early Court Journals and Letters Beatrijs Vanacker THE SOUND OF SOVEREIGNTY Royal Vocal Strategies in the Victorian House of Lords Josephine Hoegaerts PART 2: PLACES AND SPACES OF POWER THE QUEEN FROM THE SOUTH Eleanor of Aquitaine as a Political Strategist and Lawmaker Ayaal Herdam and David J. Smallwood THE SPACES OF FEMALE SOVEREIGNTY IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN Maria Cristina Quintero FRENCH ARISTOCRAT AND POLISH QUEEN Maria Kazimiera d’Arquien Sobieska’s Strategies of Power (1674–1698) Jarosław Pietrzak BECOMING BRITISH The Role of the Hanoverian Queen Consort Joanna Marschner TAMING THE SOVEREIGN Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Rhetoric of Gender Virginia McKendry DISCOURSES OF SOVEREIGNTY AS AN OBSTACLE TO WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE? An Essay in Comparative History Marnix Beyen
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