Feminist interpretations and political theory - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745607047 ISBN 13: 9780745607047

Publisher: Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 1991

Synopsis

This volume brings together feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Rawls. The collection also includes examinations from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Simone de Beauvoir which are usually excluded from the works conventionally held to comprise "Western political thought". 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 diversity of feminist approaches and theoretical frameworks are represented, forming a 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 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. Carole Pateman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles; her books include The Sexual Contract and The Disorder of Women.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity Press in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0745607047
• ISBN 13: 9780745607047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288