Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern FranceHarvard University Press, 2004 M11 30 - 310 páginas In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France. The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult males headed the body politic, setting the stage for innovative claims to authority made on gendered terms. When assuming the regency, Catherine de Medicis presented herself as dutiful mother, devoted widow, and benign peacemaker, masking her political power. In subsequent regencies, Marie de Medicis and Anne of Austria developed strategies that naturalized a regendering of political structures. They succeeded so thoroughly that Philippe d'Orleans found that this rhetoric at first supported but ultimately undermined his authority. Regencies demonstrated that power did not necessarily work from the places, bodies, or genders in which it was presumed to reside. While broadening the terms of monarchy, regencies involving complex negotiations among child kings, queen mothers, and royal uncles made clear that the state continued regardless of the king--a point not lost on the Revolutionaries or irrelevant to the fate of Marie-Antoinette. |
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Power and Authority Lineages of Regency and the Gendering of Political Entitlement | 13 |
Catherine de Medicis Staging the Political Woman | 24 |
Contesting the Politics of the State Marie de Medicis Royal Familiality and Gender Performance 16101643 | 59 |
Evacuating the Center Anne dAutriche and the Minority of Louis XIV | 98 |
The Male Regent Philippe dOrleans and the Traditions of Regency Government | 137 |
Revolution and Regency Killing the Past | 177 |
Conclusion | 200 |
Abbreviations | 211 |
Notes | 213 |
Index | 291 |
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Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France Katherine Crawford Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France Katherine Crawford Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
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Página 9 - Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts follow; rather, gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
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