Contents; Introduction: Who Represents Elizabeth?; 1. Engendered Economics: Elizabeth I's Coronation Entry (1559); 2. Engendering Policy at Kenilworth (1575); 3. Engendered Violence: Elizabeth, Spenser, and the Definitions of Chastity (1590); Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
A study of Elizabeth I which focuses on her difficulty in building up power in a patriarchal society. The author uses literary and historical examination of three crises in her reign to trace the queen's struggle to retain control over the iconography of both her physical self and her political domain
