Feminist Interpretations And Political Theory

Author : Carole Pateman,Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271007427

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Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory by Carole Pateman,Mary Lyndon Shanley Pdf

This volume brings together exciting and provocative new feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Habermas. The collection also includes examinations of the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone de Beauvoir that are usually excluded from the works conventionally held to comprise &"Western political thought.&" The essays raise fundamentally important questions about the significance of sexual difference in the great works of political theory and draw attention to neglected arguments and silences in the texts. No single feminist view of either the texts or the theoretical way forward informs these essays. A wide diversity of feminist approaches and theoretical frameworks are represented, forming a rich variety of interpretations and argument about such questions as the patriarchal construction of central political categories, the relation between public and private life, and the problem of equality and difference, including differences among women. This refreshing and stimulating collection will be indispensable for students of political thought and offers all those interested in the connection between the classic writings and current political discussions as accessible introduction to feminist argument.

Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley,Uma Narayan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271017252

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Reconstructing Political Theory by Mary Lyndon Shanley,Uma Narayan Pdf

In this volume, a companion to Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (Penn State, 1991) edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman, leading feminist theorists rethink the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and concerns regarded as central to the analysis of political life. Written by well-known scholars in philosophy, political science, sociology, and law, the book provides a rich interdisciplinary account of key issues in political thought. While some of the chapters discuss traditional concepts such as rights, power, freedom, and citizenship, others argue that topics less frequently discussed in political theory--such as the family, childhood, dependency, compassion and suffering--are just as significant for an understanding of political life. The Introduction shows how such diverse topics can be linked together and how feminist political theory can be elaborated systematically if it takes notions of independence and dependency, public and private, and power and empowerment as central to its agenda.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Joanne H. Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271061351

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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Joanne H. Wright Pdf

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Joanne H. Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271061375

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Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Joanne H. Wright Pdf

Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes features the work of feminist scholars who are centrally engaged with Hobbes’s ideas and texts and who view Hobbes as an important touchstone in modern political thought. Bringing together scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, history, political theory, and English literature who embrace diverse theoretical and philosophical approaches and a range of feminist perspectives, this interdisciplinary collection aims to appeal to an audience of Hobbes scholars and nonspecialists alike. As a theorist whose trademark is a compelling argument for absolute sovereignty, Hobbes may seem initially to have little to offer twenty-first-century feminist thought. Yet, as the contributors to this collection demonstrate, Hobbesian political thought provides fertile ground for feminist inquiry. Indeed, in engaging Hobbes, feminist theory engages with what is perhaps the clearest and most influential articulation of the foundational concepts and ideas associated with modernity: freedom, equality, human nature, authority, consent, coercion, political obligation, and citizenship. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Joanne Boucher, Karen Detlefsen, Karen Green, Wendy Gunther-Canada, Jane S. Jaquette, S. A. Lloyd, Su Fang Ng, Carole Pateman, Gordon Schochet, Quentin Skinner, and Susanne Sreedhar.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400824168

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Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory by Nancy J. Hirschmann Pdf

In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory. Despite the prominence of "state of nature" ideas in modern political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By rereading "human nature" in light of this insight, Hirschmann uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing canonical theorists as proponents of either "positive" or "negative" liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates, because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously throughout their work.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann,Kirstie M. McClure
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271046929

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Feminist Interpretations of John Locke by Nancy J. Hirschmann,Kirstie M. McClure Pdf

Author : Clement Fatovic,Sean Noah Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315506036

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Interpretation in Political Theory by Clement Fatovic,Sean Noah Walsh Pdf

Theorists interested in learning more about any given interpretive approach are often required to navigate a dizzying array of sources, with no clear sense of where to begin. The prose of many primary sources is often steeped in dense and technical argot that novices find intimidating or even impenetrable. Interpretation in Political Theory provide students of political theory a single introductory reference guide to major approaches to interpretation available in the field today. Comprehensive and clearly written, the book includes: A historical and theoretical overview that situates the practice of interpretation within the development of political theory in the twentieth century. Chapters on Straussian esotericism, historical approaches within the Cambridge School of interpretation, materialist approaches associated with Marxism, the critical approaches associated with varieties of feminism, Greimassian semiotics, Foucaultian genealogy, the negative dialectics of Theodor Adorno, deconstruction as exemplified by Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. An exposition of the theoretical and disciplinary background of each approach, the tools and techniques of interpretation it uses, its assumptions about what counts as a relevant text in political theory, and what it considers to be the purpose or objective of reading in political theory. A reading of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan to illustrate how each approach can be applied in practice. A list of suggestions for further reading that will guide those interested in pursuing more advanced study. An invaluable textbook for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and even seasoned scholars of political theory interested in learning more about different interpretive approaches.

Author : Christine Di Stefano
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501734076

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Configurations of Masculinity by Christine Di Stefano Pdf

In this pathbreaking book, Christine Di Stefano offers a new perspective on the dimension of gender in modern political thought in order to elucidate what is specifically masculine in political theory. Attempting to clear some conceptual space for feminist political theory, Di Stefano provides innovative readings of Hobbes, Marx, and J. S. Mill.

Author : Brooke A. Ackerly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641873903

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Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism by Brooke A. Ackerly Pdf

Author : Bonnie Honig
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271043203

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Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt by Bonnie Honig Pdf

Author : Ruth Abbey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271069883

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Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls by Ruth Abbey Pdf

In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward. Abbey surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that follow testify to the continuing ambivalence among feminist readers of Rawls. From the perspectives of political theory and moral, social, and political philosophy, the contributors address particular aspects of Rawls’s work and apply it to a variety of worldly practices relating to gender inequality and the family, to the construction of disability, to justice in everyday relationships, and to human rights on an international level. The overall effect is to give a sense of the broad spectrum of possible feminist critical responses to Rawls, ranging from rejection to adoption. Aside from the editor, the contributors are Amy R. Baehr, Eileen Hunt Botting, Elizabeth Brake, Clare Chambers, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Anthony Simon Laden, Janice Richardson, and Lisa H. Schwartzman.

Author : Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271042169

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Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel by Patricia Jagentowicz Mills Pdf

Author : Nancy J Hirschmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429966163

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Revisioning The Political by Nancy J Hirschmann Pdf

Feminist scholars have been remaking the landscape in political theory, and in this important book some of the most important feminist political theorists provide reconstructions of those concepts most central to the tradition of political philosophy. The goal is nothing less than the construction of a blueprint for a positive feminist theory.Many of these papers are completely new; others are extensions of important earlier work; two are reprints of classic papers. The result is a progress report on the continuing feminist project to re-envision traditional political theory. As such, it constitutes essential reading not only for feminist thinkers but also for traditional philosophers and political theorists, who will need to come to terms with these contemporary critiques and re-readings.

Author : Brooke A. Ackerly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521650194

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Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism by Brooke A. Ackerly Pdf

This book draws on the insights of Third World women's activism to develop feminist theory.

Author : Ruth Abbey
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271063133

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Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls by Ruth Abbey Pdf

In Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, Ruth Abbey collects eight essays responding to the work of John Rawls from a feminist perspective. An impressive introduction by the editor provides a chronological overview of English-language feminist engagements with Rawls from his Theory of Justice onward. Abbey surveys the range of issues canvassed by feminist readers of Rawls, as well as critics’ wide disagreement about the value of Rawls’s corpus for feminist purposes. The eight essays that follow testify to the continuing ambivalence among feminist readers of Rawls. From the perspectives of political theory and moral, social, and political philosophy, the contributors address particular aspects of Rawls’s work and apply it to a variety of worldly practices relating to gender inequality and the family, to the construction of disability, to justice in everyday relationships, and to human rights on an international level. The overall effect is to give a sense of the broad spectrum of possible feminist critical responses to Rawls, ranging from rejection to adoption. Aside from the editor, the contributors are Amy R. Baehr, Eileen Hunt Botting, Elizabeth Brake, Clare Chambers, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Anthony Simon Laden, Janice Richardson, and Lisa H. Schwartzman.