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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Female authority"”.
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Nursery of the Nation: Mothers, Midwives and National Identity on the Eighteenth-Century Comedic Stage
… of a more appropriate version of masculine authority. These positive representations of female authority challenge popular beliefs about women's duplicity by presenting strong female figures who responsibly fulfill their maternal roles without the tyranny that characterizes men in similarly …
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Women's Leadership: Young Men's Expectations of Female Leaders
… sought to understand young men’s expectations of female leaders. Interviews of twenty pre-professional millennial men, most from major Midwestern cities were coded using InVivo and other initial coding methods to identify themes and categories that built a grounded theory. While many young men …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
… nuns, but of any dependent communities, male or female. The authority of these women rested on the history of their communities, the strength of their advocates, and their own ability to pursue their rights. In Poitiers, the abbesses of Sainte-Croix built the strength of their office on the …
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A Feminist Politics of Discursive Embodiment: Rethinking Iris M. Young's Gender Seriality
Divergent forms of female embodiment have prompted contemporary feminist theorists to depart from gender essentialism and draw attention to the heterogeneity of gender performances in the (re)conceptualisation of 'women'. I argue feminist politics may become ossified and repressive if the public …
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Sex And Gender Roles In Gentle And Noble Families, c.1575-1660, With A Particular Focus On Marriage Formation
… as such. How marriages were forged and male and female roles in this process and in marriage itself required the balancing of many factors. Prescription recognised this and practice reinforced the need for pragmatism. Moreover, advice was not monolithic, but nuanced according to its purpose and …
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Practices and performances of queenship: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533
… This study argues that the particular type of female authority available to queens in monarchical, dynastic regimes must be understood by considering the practices and performances of queenship that allowed queens to accumulate the moral, political, and social capital necessary to act as the …
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
… conditions that saw a significant growth in female participation in the world of print and, thereby, in intellectual exchange with men - often in writings loosely operating within a ‘Republic of Letters’ - act as the shaping context for my analysis of her construction of agency and authority …