Although more women in France have entered political life than ever before, the fact remains that there are fewer women representatives in the French parliament

Although more women in France have entered political life than ever before, the fact remains that there are fewer women representatives in the French parliament

A revolutionary reinterpretation of the French past, focused on contesting and defending masculine hierarchy in relations between women and men.

In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the

Women and Power at the French Court, 1483--1563 explores the ways in which a range of women " as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attenda