Women in Western Political Thought /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Okin, Susan Moller
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778
Plato.
Mill, John Stuart, > 1806-1873
Mill, John Stuart, > 1806-1873.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778.
Politische Philosophie
Frau
Women > Philosophy.
Sex role.
Feminism.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
feminism.
sex role.
Feminisme.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Femmes > Philosophie > Histoire.
Women > Philosophy > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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