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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 344
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-02-17 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-30 - Publisher: Yale University Press
Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that