Published in two slim but dense volumes, the study examines, in the first one, political and feminist (and some anti-feminist) texts that deal directly or indirectly with female rule, and, in the second, dramatic texts featuring a queen. Ruling Women, Derval Conroy's study of the seventeenth-century discourses on female rule or gynæcocracy (a term perhaps more familiar to American readers as its variant "gynocracy"), highlights the cross-fertilization between political discourse and drama that together created new paradigms of female authority.
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