Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth
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Gendering the Renaissance commonwealth
(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.])
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Includes index
Bibliography: p. 228-249
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Description
This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but important classical tradition in political thought. Exploring how 'the political' was incorporated into a wide array of 'private' or 'apolitical' topics by early modern thinkers, Becker demonstrates how both republican and absolutist thinkers - the two poles which organise early modern political thought - relied on gendered justifications. In doing so, she reveals how the foundations of the modern state were significantly shaped by gendered concerns.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The civic and the domestic in Aristotelian thought
- 2. Friendship, concord, and Machiavellian subversion
- 3. Jean Bodin and the politics of the family
- 4. Inclusions and exclusions
- 5. Sovereign men and subjugated women: the invention of a tradition
- Conclusion: from wives to children, from husbands to fathers.
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