Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams.
The article discusses Mihoko Suzuki's book, *Antigone's Example*, which explores early modern women's political writing in France and England from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Suzuki employs a comparative and transnational approach to highlight how civil wars and revolutions enable...
| Published in: | Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 202 - 206 |
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University of Chicago Press
Fall2025
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