What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England? Responding to this question, Conspiracy and Virtue argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. Rather than producing silence, this exclusion generated rich, complex, and oblique political involvements which this study traces through the writings of both men and women. Pursuing this argument Conspiracy and Virtue
engages the main writings on women's relationship to the political sphere including debates on the public sphere and on contract theory. Writers and figures discussed include Elizabeth Avery, Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Maragret Cavendish, Queen Christina of Sweden, Anne Halkett, Brilliana Harley, Lucy Hutchinson,
John Milton, Elizabeth Poole, Sara Wight, and Henry Jessey.
- ISBN10 0191514063
- ISBN13 9780191514067
- Publish Date December 2006 (first published 14 December 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English