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YOUNG QUEENS - LEAH REDMOND CHANG GEBUNDEN

One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023One of BookRiot's Best Biographies of 2023Longlisted
for the 2024 Women's Prize in NonfictionThe boldly original  dramatic intertwined story of
Catherine de' Medici  Elisabeth de Valois  and Mary  Queen of Scots-three queens exercising
power in a world dominated by men.Orphaned from infancy  Catherine de' Medici endured a
tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king  she was widowed by forty  only to become the
power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546  Catherine gave
birth to a daughter  Elisabeth de Valois  who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later 
Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots  who would later
become her daughter-in-law.Together  Catherine  Elisabeth  and Mary lived through the sea
changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe  a time of expanding empires  religious
discord  and populist revolt  as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of
sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a
constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time.Following the intertwined
stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood  Leah Redmond Chang's Young
Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet
remain at the mercy of the state  her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty 
sacrificed to the will of husband  family  kingdom.

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