Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0271007362 ISBN 13: 9780271007366

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This volume brings together exciting and provocative new feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Rawls. The feminist scholars focus on neglected arguments and silences in the texts and raise fundamentally important questions about the significance of sexual difference in the great works of political theory. 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.

About the Author:

Mary Lyndon Shanley is Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and author of Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850–1895 (1993).

Carole Pateman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles; her books include The Sexual Contract (1988) and The Disorder of Women (1989).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0271007362
• ISBN 13: 9780271007366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Shanley Mary Lyndon, Pateman Carole