... her inferior female body. John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. Knox contended that "the head hath [God] joined with the body, that from it, doth life and motion flow to the rest of the members" the extended metaphor continued, encoding the ... head as male, and the kingdom as female, thus when a King became ruler he was symbolically married to the realm. In traditional gender hierarchy, the male leader dominates over the female ... state, when there is a female head of state, the symbolic body ...

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... body for her loss of virtue, as again was the expected norm, Violenta stabs Roderigo with "undaunted resolution and heroic spirit," "tore the eyes out of his head," "tears his heart from its seat," cuts off all his limbs, and throws his body out of the window, declaring that his "Since my virtue is ... ...

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... way to the denial of opportunity to converse on an educated literary scale with her female contemporaries. Furthermore, a women's tradition in writing to this point, had only just reared its head, thus women were generally viewed with skepticism in contemporary society as true literary artists. Writing was still considered a male-dominant art form and in general women were still looked upon ... ...

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