Women Theorists on Society and Politics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889202907 ISBN 13: 9780889202900

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Revolution, abolition of slavery, public health care, welfare, violence against women, war and militarism ― such issues have been debated for centuries. But much work done by women theorists on these traditional social and political topics is little known or difficult to obtain. This new anthology contains significant excerpts not normally included in standard collections.

Women Theorists on Society and Politics brings together scarce, previously unpublished and newly translated excerpts from works by such women theorists as Emilie du Châtelet, Germaine de Staël, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Flora Tristan, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Beatrice Webb and Jane Addams. It focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers, but also includes some selections from as early as the Renaissance and late seventeenth century.

Introductions to the material, biographical background and secondary sources enhance this important collection. Women Theorists on Society and Politics provides essential theory on standard topics and a balance to the anthologies of feminist writing now more commonly available.

About this title

About the Author:

Lynn McDonald, director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is university professor emerita at the University of Guelph. She is an environmentalist, a former member of parliament, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a long-time activist on womens issues. She has an honorary doctorate from York University.

Review:

``This fascinating volume includes material that has not hitherto been published...or appeared in English...and makes difficult texts more accessible by translating the works of early theorists into modern English so that readers can concentrate on content rather than form.'' (Margaret Conrad)

About this edition

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0889202907
• ISBN 13: 9780889202900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: McDonald Lynn