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Subject(s)

• Women—Political activity—History [Browse]
• Political science—History [Browse]

Summary note

"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 thory. 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 perspective..." - Publisher

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-266) and index.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

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, Bolsheviks and Marxist feminists : Marxism and the woman question
• Contemporary feminism : towards postmodernism?

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ISBN

1555874576 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^93011082^

OCLC

28147728

RCP

H - S

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