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Origin Stories in Political Thought : Discourses on Gender, Power, and Citizenship /

"Joanne H. Wright's Origins Stories in Political Thought examines Plato's Timaeus, Hobbe's story of the state of nature and the social contract, and early Second Wave feminist stories about the beginnings of patriarchal social relations. Using a historically sensitive, feminist m...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wright, Joanne H. (Joanne Harriet), 1966-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The origins imperative in political theory : an introduction
  • The birth of philosophy : Plato's creation politics
  • Hobbes and the discourse on origins
  • Gender in Hobbes's origin story : the case for original maternal dominion
  • Pateman's sexual contract : an origin story of her own
  • Getting to the root of patriarchy : radical feminism's quest for origins
  • Conclusion.