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Rilegato. Condition: nuovo. Pages: 368 p. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2015. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-54778-7. Hardback ---- SUMMARY During the English Civil Wars and Revolution (164060), the affairs of Church and State came under a crucial new form of comment and critique, in the form of public petitions. Petitioning was a readily available mode of communication for women, and this study explores the ways in which petitioning in seventeenth-century England was adapted out of and differed from pre-Revolutionary modes, whilst also highlighting gendered conventions and innovations of petitioning in that period. Male petitioning in the seventeenth century did not have to negotiate the cultural assumptions about intellectual inferiority and legal incapacity that constrained women. Yet just because women did not claim separate (and modern) women's rights does not mean that they were passive, quiescent, or had no political agency. On the contrary, as this study shows, women in the Revolution could use petitioning as a powerful way to address those in power, precisely because it was done from an assumed position of weakness. The petition is not simply a text, authored by a single pen, but a series of social transactions, performed in multiple social and political settings, frequently involving people previously excluded from participation in political discussion or action. To the extent that women participated in collective petitioning, or turned their individual addresses into printed artefacts for public scrutiny, they also participated in the public sphere of political opinion and debate. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. 'But why do I trouble you about petitions?' Chapter 2. 'Some women can shift it well enough': A Legal Context for Understanding the Women Petitioners of the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution Chapter 3. 'Your distressed handmaid': A Survey of Women's Published Petitions, 164260 Chapter 4. Between Deference and Defiance: The Rhetoric of Petitioning Chapter 5. 'Our oppressions are too many and great for us': Reading the Women Petitioners of the English Revolution (I) Chapter 6. 'Women were never so useful as now': Reading the Women Petitioners of the English Revolution (II) Conclusion Bibliography Index.