Women in Western Political Thought /

Women in Western Political Thought / / Susan Moller Okin.

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,...

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Okin, Susan Moller,
TeilnehmendeR:
Satz, Debra.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction to the 2013 Edition
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction
  • PART I. PLATO
  • 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-far Men
  • 8. The Fate of Rousseau's Heroines
  • PART IV. MILL
  • 9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist
  • PART V. FUNCTIONALISM, FEMINISM AND THE FAMILY
  • 10. Women and Functionalism, Past and Resent
  • 11. Persons, Women, and the Law
  • 12. Conclusion
  • Appendix to Chapter 4
  • Afterword to the 1992 edition
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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