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Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments caused immense confusion and suffering; others greatly expanded women's opportunities and worldview - long before the various women's suffrage movements were more than a glimmer on the horizon. This study pays attention to queens as well as commoners; respectable working women as well as prostitutes; women physicists and mathematicians as well as m

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- BOWERS V. HARDWICK in the Renaissance -- Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England -- The (In ) Significance of "Lesbian" Desire in Early Modern England -- Fraudomy.· Reading Sexuality and Politics in Burchiello -- Practicing queer philology with Marguerite de Navarre: nationalism and the castigation of desire -- Erasmus's Tigress : the language of Friendship, pleasure and the renaissance letter -- John Bale and Early Tudor sodomy discourse -- "To serve the Queere": Nicholas Udall, master of revels -- Into other arms: Amoret's evasion -- Romeo and Juliet's Open Rs -- The epistemology of expurgation: bacon and the masculine birth of time -- Pleasure and devotion: the body of Jesus and seventeenth-century religious lyric -- My two dads: collaboration and the reproduction of Beaumont and Fletcher -- Fighting women and loving men: Dryden's representation of Shakespeare in all for love -- New English Sodom -- Afterword -- Notes on contributors -- Index