Gendering "Just Cause" in the English Civil War: A Prayer for Procreative Peace.
Focusing on Mid-Wives just Petition , a 1643 anti-war tract often dismissed as a political satire of women's sexual appetites, Megan Matchinske imagines the possibility instead put forward by its narrator of a post-Lockean propertied self that genders female and has inalienable rights. When we pay a...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 23; no. 3/4; pp. 105 - 124 |
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