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Women in Western political thought / Susan Moller Okin ; with a new introduction by Debra Satz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2013.Description: xviii, 413 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780691158341 (pbk.)
  • 0691158347 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42 22 OKI
Contents:
I. Plato -- Plato and the Greek tradition of Misogyny -- Philosopher queens and private wives -- Female nature and social structure -- II. Aristotle -- Woman's place and nature in a functionalist world -- III. Rousseau -- Rousseau and the modern patriarchal tradition -- The natural woman and her role -- Equality and freedom--for men -- The fate of Rousseau's heroines -- IV. Mill -- John Stuart Mill, liberal feminist -- V. Functionalism, feminism and the family -- Women and functionalism, past and present -- Persons, women and the law -- Conclusions.
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Originally published : 1979.

Index : p. 399-413.

Bibliography : p. 387-397.

I. Plato -- Plato and the Greek tradition of Misogyny -- Philosopher queens and private wives -- Female nature and social structure -- II. Aristotle -- Woman's place and nature in a functionalist world -- III. Rousseau -- Rousseau and the modern patriarchal tradition -- The natural woman and her role -- Equality and freedom--for men -- The fate of Rousseau's heroines -- IV. Mill -- John Stuart Mill, liberal feminist -- V. Functionalism, feminism and the family -- Women and functionalism, past and present -- Persons, women and the law -- Conclusions.

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