Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth(English, Hardcover, Becker Anna)

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Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth(English, Hardcover, Becker Anna) is written by Becker Anna and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 110848705X (ISBN 10) and 9781108487054 (ISBN 13).

This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.