'Womanhood and weakness': Elizabeth I, James I and propaganda strategy.
Exploring popular early modern associations between 'womanhood and weakness', this article explores Elizabeth's engagement with gender as a propaganda strategy, using her speeches as examples of public engagement that stretch well beyond their original audience. Rather than framing womanhood and wea...
| Publicado en: | Renaissance Studies Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 260 - 278 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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