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Women in Western political thought /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Okin, Susan Moller
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Plato
  • Plato and the Greek tradition of Misogyny
  • Philosopher queens and private wives
  • Female nature and social structure
  • II. Aristotle
  • Woman's place and nature in a functionalist world
  • III. Rousseau
  • Rousseau and the modern patriarchal tradition
  • The natural woman and her role
  • Equality and freedom
  • for men
  • The fate of Rousseau's heroines
  • IV. Mill
  • John Stuart Mill, liberal feminist
  • V. Functionalism, feminism and the family
  • Women and functionalism, past and present
  • Persons, women and the law
  • Conclusions.