ISBN:
9780691158341
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (441 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in Western Political Thought (New Paperback)
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Plato -- Political science
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Mill, John Stuart, -- 1806-1873
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778 -- Political science
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Feminism
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Political science
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Sex role
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Women
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction to the 2013 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. PLAT0; 1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny; 2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives; 3. Female Nature and Social Structure; PART II. ARISTOTLE; 4. Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World; PART III. ROUSSEAU; 5. Rousseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition; 6. The Natural Woman and Her Role; 7. Equality and Freedom-for Men; 8. The Fate of Rousseau's Heroines; PART IV. MILL; 9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist
Description / Table of Contents:
PART V. FUNCTIONALISM, FEMINISM AND THE FAMILY10. Women and Functionalism, Past and Present; 11. Persons, Women, and the Law; 12. Conclusions; Appendix to Chapter 2; Afterword to the 1992 Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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