Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women Book

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	Acknowledgments
1	Politics, Women's Voices, and the Renaissance: Questions and Context	1
2	Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames and Tresor de la Cite: Toward a Feminist Scriptural Practice	15
3	Conflicting Rhetoric about Tudor Women: The Example of Queen Anne Boleyn	39
4	Elizabeth I - Always Her Own Free Woman	57
5	The Fictional Families of Elizabeth I	85
6	Dutifully Defending Elizabeth: Lord Henry Howard and the Question of Queenship	113
7	The Blood-Stained Hands of Catherine de Medicis	139
8	Expert Witnesses and Secret Subjects: Anne Askew's Examinations and Renaissance Self-Incrimination	157
9	Mary Baynton and Anne Burnell: Madness and Rhetoric in Two Tudor Family Romances	173
10	Queenship in Shakespeare's Henry VIII: The Issue of Issue	189
11	Reform or Rebellion?: The Limits of Female Authority in Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II	205
12	Wits, Whigs, and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn's Town Comedies	223
13	Queen Mary II: Image and Substance During the Glorious Revolution	243
14	The Politics of Renaissance Rhetorical Theory by Women	257
15	Women and Political Communication: From the Margins to the Center	275
	Notes on Contributors	283
	Index	285