Men in political theory

By:

Carver, Terrell [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847793645

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

JA71 .M465 2004

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Subject: ""Men in Political Theory"" builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy by turning the ""gender lens"" on to the representation of men in widely studied texts. It explains the distinction between ""man"" as an apparently de-gendered ""individual"" or ""citizen"" and ""man"" as an overtly gendered being in human society. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the ""gender lens"" in different ways, depending on how each philosopher deploys concepts of m.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	JA71 .328 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn818847149

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719059131; 9780719059131; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Plato: men/womenand order/disorder in The Republic; CHAPTER THREE Jesus: masculinity and the 'son of man'; CHAPTER FOUR Augustine: confessing like a man; CHAPTER FIVE Machiavelli: discourses on masculinities; CHAPTER SIX Hobbes: materialism, mechanism, masculinity; CHAPTER SEVEN Locke: overtly and covertly genderednarratives of political society; CHAPTER EIGHT Rousseau: fantasising men; CHAPTER NINE Marx: (non)critique of thegender categories; CHAPTER TEN Engels: men behaving naturally; Conclusion.

""Men in Political Theory"" builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in political philosophy by turning the ""gender lens"" on to the representation of men in widely studied texts. It explains the distinction between ""man"" as an apparently de-gendered ""individual"" or ""citizen"" and ""man"" as an overtly gendered being in human society. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the ""gender lens"" in different ways, depending on how each philosopher deploys concepts of m.

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