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Author : Jacqueline Broad
Release : 2009-01-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 by : Jacqueline Broad
Download or read book A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 written by Jacqueline Broad. This book was released on 2009-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: alike." --Book Jacket.
Author : Karen Green
Release : 2014-12-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 503/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800 by : Karen Green
Download or read book A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800 written by Karen Green. This book was released on 2014-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualisation of marriage, and the emergence of modern, democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, and their engagement with the works of political thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville and Rousseau. Her exploration ranges across Europe from England through France, Italy, Germany and Russia, and discusses thinkers including Mary Astell, Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Kulmus-Gottsched and Elisabetta Caminer Turra. This study demonstrates the depth of women's contributions to eighteenth-century political debates, recovering their historical significance and deepening our understanding of this period in intellectual history. It will provide an essential resource for readers in political philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and women's studies.
Author : Arlene Saxonhouse
Release : 1985-08-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 553/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in the History of Political Thought by : Arlene Saxonhouse
Download or read book Women in the History of Political Thought written by Arlene Saxonhouse. This book was released on 1985-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one reads the classic works of political philosophy one is limited to books written by male authors. When reading interpretations of these authors it seems that the male philosophers were only concerned with the male citizen. Arlene Saxonhouse argues that these classic authors, from Plato to Machiavelli, while they praised the world of male public action, also recognized that the public world was not the totality of human existence. These authors, Saxonhouse says, saw that a private sphere which included women existed, and that that sphere set limits upon and defined the possibilities of the public world. She argues further that the authors did not ignore the female, rather it is the inadequacies of modern scholarship that have made them appear to have done so. This volume shows how women have been an integral part of political philosophers' vision of the world, not a scattered side show in certain philosophical works.
Author : Susan Moller Okin
Release : 2013-04-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in Western Political Thought by : Susan Moller Okin
Download or read book Women in Western Political Thought written by Susan Moller Okin. This book was released on 2013-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and behavior, the formal equality women have won has no chance of becoming substantive.
Author : Morag Buchan
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 848/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in Plato's Political Theory by : Morag Buchan
Download or read book Women in Plato's Political Theory written by Morag Buchan. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: This book examines the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's philosophy, and suggests that Plato's views on women are central to his political philosophy. Morag Buchan explores Plato's writings to argue his notions of the inferior female and the superior male. While Plato appears to allow women equal opportunity and participation of political life in the Ideal State in The Republic, his motivation rests on masculine ideals. Women in Plato's Political Theory examines issues including women's relationship to men, to reproduction, to rational thought and politics in Plato's work, and addresses more generally the problem of sexual identity in philosophy. This book is an important contribution toward a wider interpretation of Platonic philosophy.
