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The pious sex : essays on women and religion in the history of political thought /
This collection of original essays examines the relationship between women and religion in the history of political thought broadly conceived. This theme is a remarkably revealing lens through which to view the Western philosophical and poetical traditions that have culminated in secular and egalita...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the pious sex / Andrea Radasanu
- The piety of Esther / Clifford Orwin
- Three tragic versions of female (im)piety: Clytemnestra, Jocasta, and Antigone / Kathrin H. Rosenfield
- Women, war, and piety in Plato's Laws / Dana Jalbert Stauffer
- Educating the perfect wife: piety and rational control in the Oeconomicus / Paul W. Ludwig
- Love and piety in Machiavelli's Mandragola / Catherine Connors
- " Nay, then 'tis past jesting": piety and female friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a loss / Heather King
- Women, Christianity, and the modern in Montesquieu's Considerations on the Romans / Diana J. Schaub
- Rousseau's domestication of Amour-propre / Eve Grace
- Jane Austen's education of women: a study of Mansfield Park / Amy L. Bonnette
- Flaubert: Eros and politics after Rousseau / Andrea Radasanu
- Nietzche in Eden / Lise van Boxel
- Index
- About the contributors.