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Strategic Imaginations : Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture /

What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is of course not to say that there never were women sovereigns. In-depth studies of women sovereigns have grown considerably in number in the past three dec...

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Otros Autores: Defurne, Aude, Gilleir, Anke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven : Leuven UP 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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