The feminist adage “the personal is political” asserts that politics permeates all aspects of human life. Emphasizing state politics clarifies that the institutions and theories often considered least accessible to women—universities, parliaments, legal courts—not only affect women but are affected by them. This entry draws the framing of acts and identities from queer theory and lived theoretical intelligence from critical race theory to focus on the distinctively poetic aspects of early modern women’s politics, using the examples of sixteenth-century poet Isabella Whitney and seventeenth-century writer Lucy Hutchinson.