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Feminist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes /

"A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hirschmann, Nancy J., Wright, Joanne H. (Joanne Harriet), 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2012.
Series:Re-reading the canon.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Hobbes, history, politics, and gender: a conversation with Carole Pateman and Quentin Skinner / Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright
  • pt. 1. Classic questions, new approaches. Power and sexual subordination in Hobbes's political theory / S.A. Lloyd ; Defending liberal feminism: insights from Hobbes / Jane S. Jaquette ; Hobbes and the bestial body of sovereignty / Su Fang Ng
  • pt. 2. The gendered politics of gratitude, contract, and the family. Thomas Hobbes on the family and the state of nature / Gordon J. Schochet ; Gordon Schochet on Hobbes, gratitude, and women / Nancy J. Hirschmann
  • pt. 3. Hobbes and his(torical) women. Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes on freedom, education, and women / Karen Detlefsen ; When is a contract theorist not a contract theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as critics of Thomas Hobbes / Karen Green ; Catharine Macaulay's "loose remarks" on Hobbesian politics / Wendy Gunther-Canada
  • pt. 4. Hobbes in the twenty-first century, or what has Hobbes done for you lately? Thomas Hobbes and the problem of fetal personhood / Joanne Boucher ; Choice talk, breast implants, and feminist consent theory: Hobbes's legacy in choice feminism / Joanne H. Wright ; Toward a Hobbesian theory of sexuality / Susanne Sreedhar.