Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics: : Steven Berg: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics

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This impressive collection of previously unpublished essays examines the relationship between competing conceptions of "nature" and "woman." By looking historically and comprehensively at the problems and questions associated with human thinking about nature and woman, the contributors strive to gain the proper vantage point from which to assess modern virtues and vices. Also taking note of important religious and literary contributions to thought on nature and woman, these essays present a broad range of claims from classical Greece to the present intended to stimulate modern thinking. Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics will prove indispensable to scholars of philosophy, political science and women's studies.

Chapter 1 Introduction. An Apology
Chapter 2 Male and Female Created He Them: Some Platonic Reflections on Genesis 1-3
Chapter 3 The Tragic Heroine: Medea and the Problem of Exile
Chapter 4 The "Woman Drama" ofRepublic Book V
Chapter 5 Women and Slaves in Aristotle'sPolitics I
Chapter 6 Livy, Lucretia, and Rome's Republican Founding: A Reading of Female Rape and Masculine Virtu
Chapter 7 Plutarch on PhilosophicEros and Married Life
Chapter 8 Women and/as Princes in Machiavelli's Comedies
Chapter 9 The Natural Rights Family: Locke on Women, Nature, and the Problem of Patriarchy
Chapter 10 Convention and Constraint in the Education of Rousseau's "Natural Woman"
Chapter 11 Honor, Civility, and Civilization: David Hume on the Refinement of Sexual, Moral, and Civic Relations
Chapter 12 When Vanity Leads to Virtue: Self-Regard in Jane Austen and Adam Smith
Chapter 13 Virtue and Friendship inPersuasion Jane Austen's "Aristotelian" Understanding of Happiness
Chapter 14 Evolving Conceptions of Women in Modern Liberal Culture: From Hegel to Mill
Chapter 15 Nietzsche's Woman as Friend: The Paradox of Distance and Proximity
Chapter 16 What Death Will Buy: Escaping Gender in Emily Dickinson
Chapter 17 Wild Women and Graceful Girls: Toni Morrison's Winter's Tale

Product details

Published	Aug 16 2000
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	408
ISBN	9780847692477
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions	230 x 152 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Eduardo A. Velásquez

Contributor

Steven Berg

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Inger Sigrun Brodey

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Ronna Burger

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Nicholas Capaldi

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Marc Conner

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Matthew B. Crawford

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Melissa Matthes

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Domnica Radulescu

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Arlene W. Saxonhouse

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Denise Schaeffer

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Evanthia Speliotis

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Eduardo A. Velásquez

Contributor

Germaine Paulo Walsh

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Lee Ward

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Lesley Wheeler

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Deborah L. Winkle

Whether one agrees or disagrees, the arguments presented are wide-ranging and thought provoking. ... Should be required reading for anyone exploring the basis and implications of sex and gender for human social relations and political orderrrrr

American Political Science Review
This collection does serve to bring together a wide variety of positions.

Political Theory
Whether one agrees or disagrees, the arguments presented are wide-ranging and thought provoking. ... Should be required reading for anyone exploring the basis and implications of sex and gender for human social relations and political order

American Political Science Review