{"product_id":"9780791425459","title":"Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women (Suny series in Communication Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeals with women in political power during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Catherine de Medici, Mary II) and about the gender-based stereotypes that were produced rhetorically about them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors examine the political rhetoric of a number of powerful women of the Renaissance, male responses to this rhetoric, drama and fiction by both male and female authors considering women and political context, and how historians-then and now-have evaluated powerful women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA multi-disciplinary collection, the book includes an essay about Christine de Pizan and her fifteenth-century look at powerful women, an examination of seventeeth-century rhetoricians and how they viewed and reshaped the Renaissance in terms of giving power to women, and examples of English and French women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe afterword contextualizes these examples and raises questions about modern issues. The book provides a greater understanding of gender and power in the Renaissance as well as insights into the contemporary age.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48984878153963,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":190.44,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780791425459-1.jpg?v=1785757634","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780791425459","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}