Research Catalog

Title

Women theorists on society and politics / Lynn McDonald, editor.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• McDonald, Lynn.
• McDonald, Lynn, 1940-

Description

ix, 326 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Women Theorists on Society and Politics brings together scarce, previously unpublished and newly translated excerpts from works by such women theorists as Emilie du Chatelet, Germaine de Stael, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Flora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 collection. Women Theorists on Society and Politics provides important theory on standard topics and a balance to the anthologies of feminist writing now more commonly available.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Social sciences > History
• Political science > History
• Women social scientists > History
• Women political scientists > History
• Femmes politiques > Histoire
• Femmes specialistes des sciences sociales > Histoire
• Sciences sociales > Histoire
• Science politique > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-314) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Early theorists: Christine de Pisan, Mary Astell, Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Wortley Montagu, Sohpia -- Theorists on revolution: Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, May Hays, Marie Jeanne-roland, Germaine de Staël, Sophie Grouchy de Condorcet -- Theorists on Social reform: Flora Tristan, Harriet martineau, Florence Nightingale, Helen Taylor, Beatrice Webb -- Theorists on gender and violence: Josephine Butler, Elizabeth Blackwell, Frances Power Cobbe -- Theorists on peace, War and militarism: Jane Addams, Berta von Suttner, Olive Schreiner, Catherine E. Marshall, Emily Greene Balch -- An afterword -- Manuscript sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0889202907 (bound) :
• 0889203164 (pbk.)

LCCN

cn^98930586^

OCLC

38916601

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library