Virtuous Necessity

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While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women - silence, chastity, and obedience - to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period, as well as contemporary gender theory and philosophy, she uncovers the multiple meanings of behavioural expectations for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women.