Elizabeth I of England
Feminism in the Study of History
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https://doi.org/10.14422/cir.i21.y2021.008Keywords:
feminism, history, gender, hegemonic masculinity, honorary maleAbstract
Elizabeth I was and still is one of the most famous and admired figures in the history of England. She was a ruler whose reign, though successful (in leading her people into what would become known as “the golden age”), was also full of challenges, many of them rooted in the social construction of gender.
This paper seeks to analyze both her life and her reign under one of the most important approaches in the study of history in recent decades: feminism. In this way, the importance of the relationship between history and feminism will be presented, as well as a series of key concepts with which it will be possible to analyze both the influence that several key figures had in the formation of the “Virgin Queen” and the complexity of the marriage issue for a queen with honorary male status.
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