Man weiß ja was ich über Sachbuch-Cover denke, auf denen Menschen ohne Kopf zu sehen sind - auch wenn es diesmal wenigstens tatsächlich ein Portrait von Elisabeth ist^^ - aber manchmal muss man eben auch seine Sachbücher nach Titeln kaufen und She-Wolves ist schwer zu schlagen, no? ;-)
Bevor wir aber nun zu meinen überschaubaren Beobachtungen kommen, worum geht es in She-Wolves. The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth geschrieben von Helen Castor gesprochen von Hannah Curtis?

In this compelling, eye-opening story of six women who exercised
power against the odds-and one, Jane Grey, who never got the
chance-acclaimed historian Helen Castor explores the provocative subject
of women and power in England.
“The boy in the bed was just
fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now
his face was swollen and disfigured by disease, and by the treatments
his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their
failure could no longer be mistaken.”
When Edward VI-Henry VIII’s
longed-for son-died in 1553, the extraordinary fact was that there was
no one left to claim the title of king of England. For the first time,
all the contenders for the crown were female.
In 1553, England was
about to experience the “monstrous regiment”-the unnatural rule-of a
woman. But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years
before Edward’s death, Matilda, daughter of Henry I and a granddaughter
of the Conqueror, came tantalizingly close to securing her hold on the
power of the crown. And between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries
three more exceptional women-Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France,
and Margaret of Anjou-discovered, as queens, consort and dowager, how
much was possible if presumptions of male rule were not confronted so
explicitly.
In the stories of these women-told here in all their
vivid humanity-was laid out the paradox which the female heirs to the
Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman;
and the king was the head of all. How, then, could royal power lie in
female hands?