Research Catalog

Title

Origin stories in political thought : discourses on gender, power, and citizenship / Joanne H. Wright.

Author

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

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2004.

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Description

x, 230 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Joanne H. Wright's Origins Stories in Political Thought examines Plato's Timaeus, Hobbe's story of the state of nature and the social contract, and early Second Wave feminist stories about the beginnings of patriarchal social relations. Using a historically sensitive, feminist methodology, Wright documents and deconstructs the tradition of telling origin stories in the larger history of political thought." "Although individual tales have been assessed in current scholarship, the motif of the origin story itself has, until now, escaped systematic analysis. With meticulous research and convincing conclusions, Origin Stories in Political Thought makes a valuable contribution to both feminist and political studies."--Jacket.

Subject

• Fall of man
• Feminist theory
• Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
• Nature and civilization
• Pateman, Carole
• Patriarcat (Sociologie) > Philosophie
• Patriarchy
• Plato
• Political science > Philosophy
• Science politique > Philosophie
• Social contract
• State, The > Origin
• État > Origines

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The origins imperative in political theory : an introduction -- The birth of philosophy : Plato's creation politics -- Hobbes and the discourse on origins -- Gender in Hobbes's origin story : the case for original maternal dominion -- Pateman's sexual contract : an origin story of her own -- Getting to the root of patriarchy : radical feminism's quest for origins - Conclusion.

ISBN

0802088120

LCCN

^^2003904579

OCLC

52797208

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library