{"product_id":"masculine-births-lynne-greenberg-9780810149847","title":"Masculine Births: Milton, Women, and the Law","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining the legal lives of early modern women through Milton's literary works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eHistory of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e, John Milton writes, \"Laws are Masculin Births . . . nothing [is] more awry from the Law of God and Nature, then that a Woman should give Laws to Men.\" In this interdisciplinary study, Lynne Greenberg explores the normative and nonnormative legal lives of early modern women as depicted in Milton's works--unmarried and married women, mothers, heiresses, widows, and queens--providing cogent overviews of the laws of multiple jurisdictions to offer critical context for each case study. Greenberg explores a wide range of legal-juridical materials and previously unexplored archival and private family documents. As she demonstrates, while Milton's narratives are at times enmeshed in existing jural paradigms, they also offer resistant responses to marital, custodial, property, inheritance, and criminal laws and even imagine alternative jural paradigms for women. Through \u003ci\u003eMasculine Births: Milton, Women and the Law\u003c\/i\u003e, Greenberg deftly reveals that Milton both reproduces seventeenth-century legal constructs and gives birth to laws that move us toward greater equality for women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynne Greenberg,Lynne Ann Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810149842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810149847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lynne Greenberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48487436976383,"sku":"9780810149847","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f55b942a-0412-4929-8f1f-01927c12e490.jpg?v=1778060469","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/masculine-births-lynne-greenberg-9780810149847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}