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Feminist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes
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"A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
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- xi, 297 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780271056357, 9780271056364, 9780271061351, 0271061359, 0271056363, 0271061316, 9780271061306, 0271056355, 9780271061313, 0271061308
- OCLC
- ocn841810176, ocn800024886
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Hobbes, history, politics, and gender: a conversation with Carole Pateman and Quentin Skinner / Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright -- pt. 1. Classic questions, new approaches. Power and sexual subordination in Hobbes's political theory / S.A. Lloyd ; Defending liberal feminism: insights from Hobbes / Jane S. Jaquette ; Hobbes and the bestial body of sovereignty / Su Fang Ng -- pt. 2. The gendered politics of gratitude, contract, and the family. Thomas Hobbes on the family and the state of nature / Gordon J. Schochet ; Gordon Schochet on Hobbes, gratitude, and women / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- pt. 3. Hobbes and his(torical) women. Margaret Cavendish and Thomas Hobbes on freedom, education, and women / Karen Detlefsen ; When is a contract theorist not a contract theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as critics of Thomas Hobbes / Karen Green ; Catharine Macaulay's "loose remarks" on Hobbesian politics / Wendy Gunther-Canada -- pt. 4. Hobbes in the twenty-first century, or what has Hobbes done for you lately? Thomas Hobbes and the problem of fetal personhood / Joanne Boucher ; Choice talk, breast implants, and feminist consent theory: Hobbes's legacy in choice feminism / Joanne H. Wright ; Toward a Hobbesian theory of sexuality / Susanne Sreedhar