TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kostroun,Daniella J.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port Royal nuns 
AV  - BX4328.Z9 P64 2011eb
U1  - 273/.7 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Louis
KW  - Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey)
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Cistercian nuns
KW  - France
KW  - Jansenists
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Despotism
KW  - Religious absolutism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1643-1715
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Jansenism as a "woman problem" -- Controversy and reform at Port Royal -- Jansenism's political turn, 1652-1661 -- The limits to obedience, 1661-1664 -- A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-1669 -- The unsettled peace, 1669-1679 -- A royal victory, 1679-1709; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown, and the pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent, and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism, and the Cambridge school of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart of the Jansenist challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism; they responded to royal persecution with a feminist defense of women's spiritual and rational equality and of the autonomy of the individual subject, thereby offering a bold challenge to the patriarchal and religious foundations of absolutism"--Provided by publisher
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ER  -