Religion’s Being All Boo Hiss

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges faced by women in Elizabethan England and draws parallels to contemporary issues.

Welcome back to Lexx Education everyone! We hope you're on the brink of a startling good week, and we're here to spur you on to greater things with a very good episode all about the perils of being a woman in Elizabethan England! We make a startling revelation about being a woman in the 21st Century and then we move on to whether or not Elizabeth I was a unicorn or not. We talk property laws for Elizabethan women, we talk education. We look at being a normal woman and being a high society woman and discuss how either way you lived you were between a rock and a hard place in terms of female restriction. We discuss the way Henry VIII had properly rocked the boat for even being a Queen, and then we get distracted by matchstick girls for a while. Mostly though, we're on topic, focused and having a good time. And we have the lack of science to thank for that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Lexx Education

Topics covered

• Elizabethan England
• women's rights
• property laws
• education
• historical analysis
• female restrictions

Keywords

• Elizabethan women
• female restrictions
• property laws
• education
• historical context

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