Excited to share my new publication @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! We often think that women’s formal political participation began in the 1900s. Using archival records from over 150 assembly meetings between 1493-1789 in France, I show that, in fact, some women had political rights much earlier!
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The Political Limits of the Patriarchy: Women’s Rights in Early Representative Institutions | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
The Political Limits of the Patriarchy: Women’s Rights in Early Representative Institutions