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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII

Karen Lindsey

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Description:The women who wed Henry VIII are remembered mainly for the ways their royal marriages ended: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. This book helps to restore full humanity to these six fascinating women by applying the insights of feminist scholarship. Here they appear not as stereotypes, not simply as victims, but as lively, intelligent noblewomen doing their best to survive in a treacherous court. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived takes a revisionist look at 16th-century English politics (domestic and otherwise), reinterpreting the historical record in perceptive new ways. For example, it shows Ann Boleyn not as a seductress, but as a sophisticate who for years politely suffered what we would now label royal sexual harassment. It presents evidence that the princess Anne of Cleves, whom Henry declared ugly and banished from his bed, was in fact a pretty woman who agreed to the king's whim as her best hope for happiness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII. To get started finding Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 231

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Release: 1995

ISBN: 0201408236

Description: The women who wed Henry VIII are remembered mainly for the ways their royal marriages ended: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. This book helps to restore full humanity to these six fascinating women by applying the insights of feminist scholarship. Here they appear not as stereotypes, not simply as victims, but as lively, intelligent noblewomen doing their best to survive in a treacherous court. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived takes a revisionist look at 16th-century English politics (domestic and otherwise), reinterpreting the historical record in perceptive new ways. For example, it shows Ann Boleyn not as a seductress, but as a sophisticate who for years politely suffered what we would now label royal sexual harassment. It presents evidence that the princess Anne of Cleves, whom Henry declared ugly and banished from his bed, was in fact a pretty woman who agreed to the king's whim as her best hope for happiness.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII. To get started finding Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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