Women in political theory : from ancient misogyny to contemporary feminism
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Women in political theory : from ancient misogyny to contemporary feminism
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993
2nd ed
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Previous ed.: 1988
Bibliography: p. 254-266
Includes index
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Description
This book looks at how misogyny and western political thought were intertwined in their origins and how this relationship has worked itself out through the classic texts of traditional and modern political theory. In this revised edition, the analysis of these texts is accompanied by a new introduction and conclusion which bring the debates on this topic up to date. The concluding chapter examines contemporary feminist theory by discussing pooststructuralist and postmodernist themes, which allows for a reappraisal of the critical perspectives brought to bear in the earlier chapters and for a discussion of recent feminist developments in terms of textual analysis and critiques of foundational categories and concepts.
Table of Contents
- The origin of western thought and the birth of misogyny
- Plato and Aristotle - the status of women in the Just State
- women in medieval thought - transitions from antiquity to the Renaissance
- Hobbes and Locke - natural right against natural authority
- Rousseau and Wollstonecraft - female virtue and civic virtue in the liberal state
- J.S. Mill - political economist, utilitarian and feminist
- socialism - utopian and feminist
- Hegel, Marx and Engels - familial and productive determinants of woman's role
- social democrats and Bolsheviks - socialism and the woman question
- contemporary feminism - postmodernism and dissonance.
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