Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe

Sharon L. Jansen is the author of Anne of France: Lessons for My Daughter (2004), The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and Dangerous Talk and Strange Behavior: Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms to Henry VIII (St. Martin's Press, 1996).

• An Age of Queens * Queens and Controversy: John Knox and The Monstrous Regiment of Women * The Gynecocracy Debate * The Gynecocracy Debate in Context: Humanism and History * The Gynecocracy Debate: Women's Voices * Queens and Controversy in Early Modern Europe: The End of an Era

"An important and interesting contribution to the history of women. Jansen has woven together an amazing number of sources and offers a concise discussion of the controversy surrounding female rule in the sixteenth century." - Shawndra L. Holderby, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania