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Feminist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes

Title: Feminist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright.
Publication: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012.

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xi, 297 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Re-reading the canon

Uniform Title

Re-reading the canon.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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JFE 13-5932

ISBN

9780271056357 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271056355 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271056364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271056363 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012028428

OCLC

800024886

Title

Feminist interpretations of Thomas Hobbes / edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Joanne H. Wright.

Imprint

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2012.

Series

Re-reading the canon

Re-reading the canon.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hirschmann, Nancy J.

Wright, Joanne H. (Joanne Harriet), 1966-

Research Call Number

JFE 13-5932

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