ISBN:
9781501711312
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1501711318
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 214 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Contestations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zerilli, Linda M. G. (Linda Marie-Gelsomina), 1956- Signifying woman
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
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Burke, Edmund 1729-1797
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Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873 Burke, Edmund 1729-1797
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Mill, John Stuart 1806-1873
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Burke, Edmund (Politiker)
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Mill, John Stuart
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Burke, Edmund
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Mill, John Stuart
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Burke, Edmund
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Mill, John Stuart
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Burke, Edmund
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Mill, John Stuart
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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Burke, Edmund (Politiker)
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Mill, John Stuart
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Feminist theory Political aspects
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Political science History
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Women in public life History
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Feminist theory
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Feminist theory Political aspects
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Political science History
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Women in public life
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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PHILOSOPHY / Political
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Feminist theory
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Feminist theory ; Political aspects
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Political science
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Women in public life
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Frau
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Frau
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Frauenbild
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Politische Philosophie
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Politische Theorie
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Frau
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History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Woman has been defined in classic political theory as elusive yet dangerous, by her nature fundamentally destructive to public life. In the view of Linda M.G. Zerilli, however, gender relations shape the very grammar of citizenship. In deeply textured interpretations of Rousseau, Burke, and Mill, Zerilli recasts our understanding of woman as the agent of social chaos and makes a major advance for feminist political theory. Zerilli draws on the work of Julia Kristeva to help explain woman's traditionally ambiguous position, as a frontier figure neither inside nor outside political space. She discusses Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (as representatives of republican, conservative, and liberal thought) and traces how each author uses woman rhetorically as he sets forth a distinct political vision in response to the social conflicts of his time. These writers invoke "woman" to articulate not only the disruptive forces of sexuality but also those of class conflict and its resolution. Menacing the stability of meaning itself, woman symbolizes the looming social, economic, and political forces of civilization (for Rousseau), of revolution (for Burke), of capitalism (for Mill) - that threaten conventional distinctions of gender and class
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-207) and index. - Print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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