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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII

Karen Lindsey
4.07/5 (1362 ratings)
The women who wed Henry VIII are remembered mainly for the ways their royal marriages ended: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

This book helps to restore full humanity to these six fascinating women by applying the insights of feminist scholarship. Here they appear not as stereotypes, not simply as victims, but as lively, intelligent noblewomen doing their best to survive in a treacherous court.

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived takes a revisionist look at 16th-century English politics (domestic and otherwise), reinterpreting the historical record in perceptive new ways. For example, it shows Ann Boleyn not as a seductress, but as a sophisticate who for years politely suffered what we would now label royal sexual harassment.

It presents evidence that the princess Anne of Cleves, whom Henry declared ugly and banished from his bed, was in fact a pretty woman who agreed to the king's whim as her best hope for happiness.
Format:
Pages:
231 pages
Publication:
1995
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Edition:
First PB Edition, First Printing
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0201408236
ISBN13:
9780201408232
kindle Asin:
B0C4H2CXRM

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII

Karen Lindsey
4.07/5 (1362 ratings)
The women who wed Henry VIII are remembered mainly for the ways their royal marriages ended: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.

This book helps to restore full humanity to these six fascinating women by applying the insights of feminist scholarship. Here they appear not as stereotypes, not simply as victims, but as lively, intelligent noblewomen doing their best to survive in a treacherous court.

Divorced, Beheaded, Survived takes a revisionist look at 16th-century English politics (domestic and otherwise), reinterpreting the historical record in perceptive new ways. For example, it shows Ann Boleyn not as a seductress, but as a sophisticate who for years politely suffered what we would now label royal sexual harassment.

It presents evidence that the princess Anne of Cleves, whom Henry declared ugly and banished from his bed, was in fact a pretty woman who agreed to the king's whim as her best hope for happiness.
Format:
Pages:
231 pages
Publication:
1995
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Edition:
First PB Edition, First Printing
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0201408236
ISBN13:
9780201408232
kindle Asin:
B0C4H2CXRM