Gender, Violence, and Rebellion in Tudor and Early Stuart Ireland
It is widely known that sixteenth-century English men held prejudices against both women and Irishmen. What is less widely known is that during the sixteenth century these prejudices intersected as the English blamed Irish women in part for why Ireland was so difficult to govern. English observers o...
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| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1992
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1992, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 699-712 |
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| Summary: | It is widely known that sixteenth-century English men held prejudices against both women and Irishmen. What is less widely known is that during the sixteenth century these prejudices intersected as the English blamed Irish women in part for why Ireland was so difficult to govern. English observers often blamed the wives of Irish rebels for inciting their husbands to rebellion, for attempting to raise troops in Scotland and on the continent, for engaging in diplomatic activities, and for being generally antithetical in attitude toward civil government. It is probably not an accident, then, that during the last half of the sixteenth century, when the English turned to more aggressive and violent polices in Ireland, women were included in those policies and the English felt justified in including them. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541728 |