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Masculine Interpretation of Queen Anne, Wife of James I
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 1995
- pp. 42-54
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0272
- Article
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For the past one hundred years historians have dismissed Queen Anne, wife of James I, as impulsive, frivolous, and insignificant. This interpretation reflects a masculine-based ideology that has recently been challenged by a feminist-oriented reevaluation of Anne as a politically skilled opponent of Jacobean patriarchy. This more balanced view is supported by references to Anne from the early seventeenth century.