Author | : Jacqueline Broad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521888174 |
alike." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Jacqueline Broad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2009-01-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521888174 |
alike." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Karen Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2014-12-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1316195503 |
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 | : Tjitske Akkerman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113474434X |
Spanning six centuries of political thought in European history, this book puts the ideas of thinkers from Christine de Pizan to Simone de Beauvoir in the broader contexts of their time. This intriguing collection of essays shows that feminism is not a varient of modern radical discourse but a mode of analysing the issues of authority, power and virtue that have been at the heart of European political thought from the middle ages.
Author | : Nancy J. Hirschmann |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015-06-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0271061359 |
Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.
Author | : Sandrine Berges |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 019876684X |
The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft brings together new essays from leading scholars, which explore Wollstonecraft's range as a moral and political philosopher of note, taking both a historical perspective and applying her thinking to current academic debates.
Author | : Karen M. Offen |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804734208 |
This ambitious book explores challenges to male hegemony throughout continental Europe over the past 250 years. For general readers and those interested primarily in the historical record, it provides a comprehensive, comparative account of feminist developments in European societies, as well as a rereading of European history from a feminist perspective. By placing gender, or relations between women and men, at the center of European politics, it aims to reconfigure our understanding of the European past and to make visible a long but neglected tradition of feminist thought and politics. On another level the book seeks to disentangle some misperceptions and to demystify some confusing contemporary debates about the Enlightenment, reason, nature, and public vs. private, equality vs. difference. In the process, the author aims to show that gender is not merely 'a useful category of analysis', but that sexual difference lies at the heart of human thought and politics.
Author | : Nancy J. Hirschmann |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271046921 |
Author | : Sarah Gwyneth Ross |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674034549 |
Ross demonstrates how the expanding ranks of learned women in the Renaissance era presented the first significant challenge to the traditional definition of “woman” in the West. The Birth of Feminism demonstrates that because of their education, these women laid the foundation for the emancipation of womankind.
Author | : Eileen O’Neill |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030181189 |
Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy. The present collection of essays has as its primary aim to evaluate past women’s published philosophical work, and to introduce readers to newly recovered female figures; the collection will also make contributions to the history of the philosophy of gender, and to the history of feminist social and political philosophy, insofar as the collection will discuss women’s views on these issues. The volume contains contributions by an international group of leading historians of philosophy and political thought, whose scholarship represents some of the very best work being done in North and Central America, Canada, Europe and Australia.